Mana vs Mank - What's the difference?
mana | mank |
Power, prestige; specifically, a form of supernatural energy in Polynesian religion that inheres in things or people.
* 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 193:
(gaming, chiefly, role-playing games) Magical power.
* 2007 , "bear", Makes Lovely Julienne Ogres....'' (on newsgroup ''rec.games.roguelike.angband )
* 2010 , Ernest Adams, Fundamentals of Game Design (page 580)
Disgusting, repulsive.
Something that is disgusting or manky.
As nouns the difference between mana and mank
is that mana is (lb) (food miraculously produced for the israelites in the desert in the book of exodus) while mank is something that is disgusting or manky.As a verb mank is
(obsolete) to mutilate.As an adjective mank is
disgusting, repulsive.mana
English
(wikipedia mana)Etymology 1
From (etyl) mana, ultimately from Proto-Polynesian .Noun
(-)- But in popular estimation their essential virtue derived from the personal mana of the sovereign.
- Teleporting from an open room where there were a dozen black orcs firing bows landed me, low on mana and hitpoints, in a room full of gnome mages who instantly summoned four umber hulks and a xorn!
- Mana often grows in exponential proportion to population size, so as the population increases the player acquires vastly greater powers—a progression that god games share with spellcaster characters in role-playing games.
Etymology 2
Anagrams
* * ----mank
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) manken, from (etyl) mancian, .Etymology 2
Via , from (etyl) . See above.Adjective
(-)- When he eats, he never closes his mouth. It's so mank .
Synonyms
* manky slang * ming slang * minging slangNoun
(-)- The plumber had to get all the mank out of the drain.