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Bangiest vs Mangiest - What's the difference?

bangiest | mangiest |

As adjectives the difference between bangiest and mangiest

is that bangiest is superlative of bangy while mangiest is superlative of mangy.

bangiest

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (bangy)
  • Anagrams

    * *

    bangy

    English

    Etymology 1

    Alternative forms

    * banghy * bhangy

    Noun

    (bangies)
  • (India) A type of yoke carried on the shoulders, as a means for people to carry a load.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1837 , author=Asiatic Society of Bengal , title=Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal , chapter= citation , isbn= , page=267 , passage=The men, to the number of 800, march in single file, and each man occupies a space of six feet, being obliged to carry a bangy' containing his provisions, cooking pots, &c. besides his musket, which is tied to the ' bangy stick.}}

    Etymology 2

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Characterized by a lot of banging sounds; clangy.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 3, author=The New York Times, title=Music in Review, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=But her performance of Beethoven’s Sonata No. 30 in E (whose finale includes Baroque references, like a fugato) at times sounded bangy , although there were lovely moments in the Andante. }}

    mangiest

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (mangy)
  • Anagrams

    *

    mangy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Afflicted with mange.
  • Worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit.
  • We stayed in a really mangy hotel in New York.

    Synonyms

    * shabby