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Welsh, you say! I always assumed it was just ''manqué'', as does Wikipedia, although some suggest it's "via Polari from Italian ''mancare'', to be lacking." Same thing, nearly.  [[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 23:42, 5 June 2012 (CEST)

And I learn too... slso of course a favourite word of  (and frequently applied to )Nobby Nobbs....[[User:AgProv|AgProv]] 09:58, 6 June 2012 (CEST)

Ach y fi! Even though I've heard it - often - in spoken Welsh and in the Wenglish of the borders, "manky" doesn't seem to be a Welsh word in its origins or however you spell it. It was certainly used a lot in Army-speak to denote things falling short of miltary perfection. There's ''mwn-ci'', meaning monkey, an animal renowned for a casual attitude towards cleanliness...   (pron mun-ki).  Heigh-ho...