scrungy

English

Adjective

scrungy (comparative more scrungy, superlative most scrungy)

  1. grungy; shabby and dirty
    • 2000, Jason Fury, His Eyes Were Dark, He Licked His Lips (page 10)
      Along a scrungy area of Fourteenth Street, a dim light glowed four stories above the white ground. A shadow paced behind the window, sipping from a goblet, pausing occasionally to stare at the wind-swept scene below.
    • 2011, Charles Pflueger, Island Fever: Life Adventures in Search of Island Paradise (page 85)
      His logic overwhelmed me and I found that drinking beer in a scrungy dump featuring dirt floors and a scratching chicken at 9 am, seemed perfectly normal after a couple of days.
    • 2012, Neil Baker, Delusions (page 89)
      What had once been a bathroom with a toilet was now a scrungy looking tiled room with a hole in the floor where the toilet was missing, and a shower that had neither knobs nor faucet but which contained a pile of ashes […]
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