Mangiest vs Manglest - What's the difference?

As an adjective mangiest

is superlative of mangy.

archaic second-person singular of mangle.

(head)

(mangy)

(er)

Afflicted with mange.

Worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit.

We stayed in a really mangy hotel in New York.

* shabby

(head)

(mangle)

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(wikipedia mangle)

(mangl)

To change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc.

* Milton

mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail

* Jonathan Swift

when they are disposed to mangle a play or novel

(archaic) To wring laundry.

(computing) To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc.

(en noun)

A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.

The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer.

* put through the mangle

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