scungy

English

Etymology

From scunge +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskʌnd͡ʒi/

Adjective

scungy (comparative scungier, superlative scungiest)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, US, informal) Dirty, messy; sordid.
   • 1975, The Bulletin, Issues 4951-4963, page 44,

     […] bewitched by the culinary oddities introduced by migrants from the scungier sections of the Old World.

   • 1990, Rob Kantner, Made in Detroit, page 3:

     “ […] I have been saving up the scungiest, most disgusting fix-up and cleanup jobs just for you.”

   • 1990 September, Byron Coley, Underground, Spin, page 86,

     The cassette collects outtakes, demos, and scungier droppings, so it′s only about as intrinsically interesting as the leftover's from Ric Menck's Groovy Strum comp must be.

   • 2007, Nigel Latta, Into the Darklands and Beyond, 2010, HarperCollins New Zealand, unnumbered page,

     They lived in a scungy state house that was far scungier than it needed to be.

   • 2009 January 13, AAP, “Enviro-friendly fridges”, in Herald-Sun‎, archived from the original on 9 September 2009:

     And while for most people, talk of “green” fridges might conjure up images of hygiene disasters in scungy student flats, the revolutionary invention is not on the nose.

   That is a scungy lawn in front of the rented flat down the road.

Synonyms

• scummy

Related terms

• scunge

Anagrams

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