Manky vs Janky - What's the difference?
manky | janky |
(British, Scotland, Ireland, slang) Unpleasantly dirty and disgusting.
* 2005 , Justin Peter Beaney, Kasdeja's Children ,
* 2010 , Marian Keyes, The Brightest Star in the Sky ,
(slang) of poor quality, odd
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(jargon, computing, rare) Unresponsive (of a software application’s user interface), sluggish.
As adjectives the difference between manky and janky
is that manky is unpleasantly dirty and disgusting while janky is of poor quality, odd.manky
English
Adjective
(er)- "He don't want those," his father said, holding a bag of apples at the end of an outstretched arm as if they were a danger to his health, "they're all... manky ."
- "Speaking of which—" Fionn starts foostering in the pocket of his manky old jacket—"I've probably got something for you."
janky
English
Adjective
(er)- Oh man, that's a janky setup.
See also
* clankyReferences
* OED 2004 *Double-Tongued Dictionary