Scungy

/ˈskʌnd͡ʒi/ · adjective

Meaning

(Australia, New Zealand, US, informal) Dirty, messy; sordid..

Example Sentences

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 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.

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

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

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.

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• scungier
• scungiest

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