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scrungy, a. slang (chiefly U.S.).|ˈskrʌndʒɪ|
[Prob. related to *scroungy a. and scungy a.; cf. also grungy a.]
Dirty, grimy; sleazy, shabby, or tatty.
1974Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 28 Apr. 17/6 John and Lyn Daley are also having trouble trying to get workmen, and say they're sick and tired of the house looking ‘so scrungy’. 1977Rolling Stone 16 June 43/3 As the scrungy taxi passenger, he has driver De Niro stop the cab and look at his wife's lurid silhouette up against a window. 1980Washington Post 11 May k8/6 Far better to get a scrungy, spontaneous, misspelled I-love-you card from your children any other day of the year than Mother's Day. 1988Los Angeles Times 18 July v. 1/1 Their clothing is either scrungy or flamboyant; mostly they look as if they had dressed to work in the garage. It isn't Ascot. |