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Mangy vs Manny - What's the difference?

mangy | manny |

As an adjective mangy

is afflicted with mange.

As a noun manny is

a male nanny for children.

As a proper noun Manny is

a diminutive=Emmanuel given name.

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

    manny

    English

    Noun

    (mannies)
  • (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. — CBS News, 9 June 2006

    • See also

    * mannie * Mannie * Manny