scungy
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editscungy (comparative scungier, superlative scungiest)
- (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[1], 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.
- 1975, The Bulletin, Issues 4951-4963, page 44,