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grungy
(redirected from grungiest)

   Also found in: Encyclopedia, Hutchinson 0.02 sec.
grun·gy  (grnj)
adj. grun·gi·er, grun·gi·est Slang
In a dirty, rundown, or inferior condition: grungy old jeans.

[Origin unknown.]

grungy [ˈgrʌndʒɪ]
adj -gier, -giest Slang
1. Chiefly US and Canadian squalid or seedy
2. (Music / Pop Music) (of pop music) characterized by a loud fuzzy guitar sound
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.grungy - thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen"
dirty, soiled, unclean - soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime; "dirty unswept sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty slums"; "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his dirty feet on the clean sheet"; "wore an unclean shirt"; "mining is a dirty job"; "Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves"
Translations
grungy [ˈgrʌndʒɪ] ADJ (grungier (compar) (grungiest (superl))) (= dirty) → cutre(Sp), roñoso (Mus) → de grunge
grungy
adj (inf)mies (inf)


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Beyond Greenberg's assertion of a golden umbilicus binding even the grungiest bohemia to an elite patron class, questions of audience tend to constitute a willful blind spot at the very core of modernist ideology.
Comments: Dressed in your best suit or your grungiest attire, you're at ease here, eating at wooden picnic tables on a floor covered with sawdust.
Newcastle's workaday world is very much evident in the show's setting: a construction site at which the workers show up in their grungiest jeans, cutoffs, tank tops, flannels and industrial boots (equipped with taps, natch).
 
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