Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. in the manner of a skank (disreputable woman)
WordNet 3.0
- adj. highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
Etymologies
- skank + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Stumbling drunk Jenna Bush spotted in skanky DC bar by on”
“Stumbling drunk Jenna Bush spotted in skanky DC ba ...”
“Gordon might as well have called her skanky, the way lovely sounded coming out of his mouth.”
“To some, a number is the difference between being dubbed skanky Paris Hilton and being considered a respectable woman.”
“How thin women really suffer and are called skanky when they take their clothes off.”
“Shorts and heels can look kinda skanky, which isn't always a bad thing (haha) but typically that look is frowned upon.”
“I hung out at Tysons Corner Center over the weekend, figuring I'd bump into kids buying the kind of skanky, sequined hookup outfits they saw on the show, or rather, the kind that would soon be peeled off the underage bodies on the show.”
The Washington Post: For teens, MTV's 'Skins' offers allure of the forbidden
“She kind of skanky, if I was rich and famous I would get someone younger and hotter.”
“On Tuesday Joan defended her Lindsay Lohan jokes to 'The Insider' and took a dig at 'skanky' Sam.”
The Huffington Post: Lindsay Lohan Strikes Back At Joan Rivers
“Just before Lindsay went to jail, she lashed out at Joan Rivers for calling Samantha "skanky" and confusing her with a "skinny boy.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘skanky’.
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Adjectives with 2 syllables that end ...
angry, bossy, busy, chilly, cheesy, creepy, dirty, early, funny, hairy, happy, healthy and 126 more...
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ze list
favorites, of all sorts
obscure, pretentious, debacle, vintage, ostentatious, damsel, plethora, requiem, memoir, loathe, lackadaisical, misanthropic and 82 more...
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that other ish
slang terms, daily verbage, and so forth.
ish, skanky, frick frack, crazelton, shiz, loverly, jessie spano'ed, caboo, cockerspaniel, crypes, shyst
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A whooshing of turpentine up my nostrils
Descriptors to use at your next wine-tasting
sawdusty, barnyardy, igneous, graphitic, impolitic, noisome, eldritch, lovecraftian, beanfeastish, spidery, impious, daft and 63 more...
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I do not like them, Sam I Am
Words that, for various reasons, I wish we could do without.
copacetic, gamut, horehound, lewd, membrane, metrics, mucous, mucus, negligee, nostril, odious, odor and 143 more...
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Chained Bear's Favorite Words
peruvian, sparky, poop, etymological, fuck, whatnot, pulchritude, nosh, tetched, quotidian, squalid, trajectory and 388 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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words I have an irrational and burnin...
celesbian, crouch, perez hilton, slop, lotus boob, anal fissure, eat out, crotch, sewage, backwash, vomit, pus and 100 more...
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Madeupical words that I love.
Are often defined on Urban Dictionary.
P.S. You may notice my love of Lewis Carrollarachibutyrophobia, brillig, slithy, gyre, gimble, mimsy, outgrabe, frumious, tove, uffish, burble, galumph and 28 more...
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The Runaways (2010)
Words from a 2010 'The Runaways' film.
skanky, wacky, bitchen, prowler, halt, women’s lib, stash, commotion, heckler, roadie, varmint, vertigo and 8 more...
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Madeupical neologisms
These are the ones I like. The ones I don't like are on the Cringe List.
madeupical, schadenfreudgiloq..., sarchasm, jedi, skanky, madeupatory, outgrabe, slithy, pantocracy, oopsigamy, mallmerized, archeotecture and 7 more...
Tweets
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grandpa27 Skanky is modern slang Aug 19, 2009