Etymology: Perhaps < Middle French, French manque offence (1596), absence of a necessary thing (1609) < manquer to lack (see manqué adj.), although the French noun is only attested slightly later than the English word, or perhaps < mank adj., although here the semantic correspondence is not so close.

Etymology: Origin uncertain; if close in meaning to ‘scurvy’, perhaps a variant of mange n., otherwise perhaps a specialized sense of mank n.¹

Etymology: < mank v.²

Etymology: Either < Middle Dutch manc maimed, defective (Dutch mank lame), or < Middle French manc one-handed, maimed (c1180 in Old French; compare Middle French, French manchot one-armed (1502)), both < classical Latin mancus having a useless hand, maimed, crippled, feeble, powerless < manus hand (see manus n.¹) + -cus , suffix forming adjectives apparently associated with physical defects (compare caecus (see caecum n.) and peccare : see peccant adj.). Compare mank v.¹

Etymology: < Middle Dutch manken to injure, weaken, harm (compare Dutch verminken to maim, mutilate) or its etymon post-classical Latin mancare to mutilate (8th or earlier in legal texts; from late 12th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin mancus mank adj. Compare manked adj.

Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps a use of mank v.¹; compare to muck about at muck v.¹ Phrasal verbs, mess v. 4c.