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    Manky is a very informal British word for something that looks dirty, stained, a bit wet or worn, and frankly not nice to touch — a manky towel, manky trainers, a manky fridge shelf. It is closer to “grotty” or “rank” than to a calm, polite “dirty.” Friends say it; a job interview does not. Americans almost never use it. Though actually, people also stretch it to mean “inferior, a bit rubbish,” not only physically filthy: a manky old phone can just be a sad, cheap one. It can sound slightly disgusted, but among British speakers it is often light and rather than a hard insult. It is not related to man. If you are writing school English for an international exam, choose dirty, stained, or messy instead, unless you are showing British talk on purpose.

    髒兮兮的、邋遢噁心(英式口語;台灣沒有固定對應詞)

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

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組成From mank + -y. The -y makes an adjective meaning “like that / covered in that.”

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

mankyadj/ˈmæŋki/

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    slangUnpleasantly dirty and disgusting.

    • "He don't want those," his father said, holding a bag of apples at the end of an outstretched arm as if they were a danger to his health, "they're all... manky."
    • "Speaking of which—" Fionn starts foostering in the pocket of his manky old jacket—"I've probably got something for you."
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    slangBeing or having bad weather.

    • On that occasion, we left Punta Arenas blue-eyed shags beat their way across the icy waves; when you glimpse at close quarters as I did one manky morning in the Lemaire Channel the blurred shape of a humpback whale […]

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。