mank

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See also: Mank, mänk, and mänk-

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English manken, from Old English *mancian, bemancian (“to maim, mutilate”), of obscure origin. Cognate with Middle Low German mank (“lame, defective”), Dutch mank (“lame, defective”), and Middle High German manc (“lack, defect”). Perhaps from Latin mancus (“maimed, crippled, frail, incomplete”), from Proto-Indo-European *mank-, *menk- (“maimed, mutilation, torment”).

Verb

mank (third-person singular simple present manks, present participle manking, simple past and past participle manked)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To mutilate.

Etymology 2

Via Polari, from Italian mancare (“to be lacking”), from Latin mancus (“maimed”). See above.

Adjective

mank (not comparable)

  1. (British, slang, originally Polari) Disgusting, repulsive.
    Synonyms: (slang) manky, (slang) ming, (slang) minging
    When he eats, he never closes his mouth. It's so mank.
  2. (Antarctica, slang) Synonym of manky (“being or having bad weather”)
    • 1978, Anthony Smith, Wilderness, page 40:
      Antarctica can be dingle, with clear skies, or mank, with nothing of the sort.
    • 1983, Portrait of Antarctica, page 154:
      This typical 'mank' weather does not stop fur seal pups from exploring.

Noun

mank (uncountable)

  1. (British, slang, originally Polari) Something that is disgusting or manky.
    The plumber had to get all the mank out of the drain.

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch manc (“a limping or lame person”), from Latin mancus (“maimed or defective”), from Proto-Indo-European *man-ko- (“maimed in the hand”), from *man-.

Pronunciation

Adjective

mank (comparative manker, superlative mankst)

  1. lame

Declension

Declension of mank
uninflected mank
inflected manke
comparative manker
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial mank manker het mankst
het mankste
indefinite m./f. sing. manke mankere mankste
n. sing. mank manker mankste
plural manke mankere mankste
definite manke mankere mankste
partitive manks mankers —

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: mank

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian manco.

Pronunciation

Adverb

mank

  1. not even
  2. if only

Plautdietsch

Etymology

Compare German mang. Related to English among.

Preposition

mank

  1. among, amongst
    • 2003, De Bibel, Markus (Mark) 10:43:
      Mank junt saul daut oba nich soo sennen; wäa mank junt well groot sennen, saul jun Deena sennen;
      But that shall not be so among you; whoever wants to be great among you shall be your servant;

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