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What is the difference between mangy and mange?

mangy | mange |

Mangy is a derived term of mange.


As a adjective mangy

is afflicted with mange.

As a noun mange is

(pathology) a skin disease of mammals caused by parasitic mites.

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

    mange

    English

    (wikipedia mange)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (pathology) A skin disease of mammals caused by parasitic mites.

    • Derived terms

    * mangy

    See also

    * scabies

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