scungyadj.
/ˈskʌn(d)ʒi/, U.S. /ˈskəndʒi/, Australian English /ˈskʌndʒi/ Chiefly Australian.
Mean, dirty, disreputable. Also in combinations.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > baseness > [adjective]
theowlikec1175
wickc1175
wretcha1200
lechera1300
vilea1300
feeblea1325
brothely1330
caitiffa1400
roinousa1425
basec1450
harlotry1486
filthy1533
brockish1546
vild1568
tinkerly?1576
scabbed?1577
miscreant1593
unnoble1593
slavish1597
rascally1600
roguish1601
sordidous1602
facinoriousa1616
scullion1658
dirty1670
shabbed1674
shabby1679
scoundrel1681
scabby1712
verminating1720
small1824
low-down1865
verminiferous1895
ragtime1917
ribby1936
raunchy1937
scungy1966
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [adjective] > dirty and mean
ungoderlyc1400
sluttish?1529
squalid1596
scrubbing1603
sordid1611
snotty1681
frowzy1710
grub1719
seedy1725
unkempt1838
grubby1844
crumby1859
ratty1867
scruffy1871
scrutty1914
scummy1932
ribby1936
raunchy1937
sleazy1941
scroungy1948
manky1958
skanky1963
grungy1965
scungy1966
scuzzy1969
scrungy1974
skeevy1976
1966 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. (ed. 2) x. 215 Scungey, dirty, untidy, disreputable.
1969 Coast to Coast 1967–8 86 Y' hate me, don'tya? Don'tya? Don'tya, eh? Answer me, y' scungy bitch. Answer me!
1970 Telegraph (Brisbane) 10 Mar. 8/5 Nowadays people..talk about ‘that scungy place, Bondi’. It's the truth, but it hurts.
1978 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 19 May 5/5 Sometimes you see scungy-looking grapes that are worth a lot of money.
1980 R. Ansell To fight Wild 56 The dressing on her leg was getting very scungy but I wasn't game to touch it until the bone had had time to begin setting.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1966