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manny | manky |
(informal) A male nanny (for children).
*2006 [Perry Taylor] has popped up in supermarket tabloids as the male nanny – or "manny" – for Britney Spears, who has a 9-month-old son, Sean Preston and is pregnant. —
(British, Scotland, Ireland, slang) Unpleasantly dirty and disgusting.
* 2005 , Justin Peter Beaney, Kasdeja's Children ,
* 2010 , Marian Keyes, The Brightest Star in the Sky ,
As a noun manny
is a male nanny for children.As a proper noun Manny
is a diminutive=Emmanuel given name.As an adjective manky is
unpleasantly dirty and disgusting.manny
English
Noun
(mannies)CBS News, 9 June 2006
See also
* mannie * Mannie * Mannymanky
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."