mungy

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mungy (comparative more mungy, superlative most mungy)

  1. (informal) dingy; of a dull and indeterminate colour
    • 2010, Sheila Simonson, Buffalo Bill's Defunct: A Latouche County Mystery:
      He glanced down at the knee-shot jeans and the T-shirt that peeked out from a mungy gray zippered sweatshirt.
    • 2011, Robin Reardon, The Evolution of Ethan Poe, page 20:
      I'm just about to start my work of replacing signs when an old Jeep Wagoneer, kind of a mungy brown, pulls up. Max is driving, with Sylvia in the passenger seat.

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