mank

• IPA^(key): /mæŋk/

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• Rhymes: -æŋk

From Middle English manken, from Old English *mancian, bemancian (“to maim, mutilate”), of obscure origin. Cognate with Middle Low German mank (“lame, defective”), Dutch mank (“lame, defective”), and Middle High German manc (“lack, defect”). Perhaps from Latin mancus (“maimed, crippled, frail, incomplete”), from Proto-Indo-European *mank-, *menk- (“maimed, mutilation, torment”).

mank (third-person singular simple present manks, present participle manking, simple past and past participle manked)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To mutilate.

• mangle

Via Polari, from Italian mancare (“to be lacking”), from Latin mancus (“maimed”). See above.

mank (not comparable)

1. (British, slang, originally Polari) Disgusting, repulsive.

   Synonyms: (slang) manky, (slang) ming, (slang) minging

   When he eats, he never closes his mouth. It's so mank.

2. (Antarctica, slang) Synonym of manky (“being or having bad weather”).
   • 1978, Anthony Smith, Wilderness, page 40:

     Antarctica can be dingle, with clear skies, or mank, with nothing of the sort.

   • 1983, Portrait of Antarctica, page 154:

     This typical 'mank' weather does not stop fur seal pups from exploring.

mank (uncountable)

1. (British, slang, originally Polari) Something that is disgusting or manky.

   The plumber had to get all the mank out of the drain.

From Middle Dutch manc (“a limping or lame person”), from Latin mancus (“maimed or defective”), from Proto-Indo-European *man-ko- (“maimed in the hand”), from *man-.

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• Rhymes: -ɑŋk

mank (comparative manker, superlative mankst)

1. lame

• manken
• mankepoot
• manklopen
• verminken

• Afrikaans: mank

Borrowed from Italian manco.

• IPA^(key): /mank/

mank

1. not even
2. if only

Compare German mang. Related to English among.

mank

1. among, amongst
   • 2003, De Bibel, Markus (Mark) 10:43:

     Mank junt saul daut oba nich soo sennen; wäa mank junt well groot sennen, saul jun Deena sennen;

     But that shall not be so among you; whoever wants to be great among you shall be your servant;

• Low German: mang