grungy

Related to grungy: fraught, relentlessly, requisite, profusely, tentatively

grungy

Dirty and unappealing. We've got to tear out this grungy old carpet—it's disgusting. Let me change first—I don't want anyone to see me in these grungy old clothes! Ew, go wash your grungy hands right now!

gungy

slang Gooey or gelatinous. Primarily heard in UK. Ugh, the gungy stuff they put on you before doing an ultrasound always feels so cold and gross.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

grungy

(ˈgrəndʒi)
1. mod. dirty and smelly; yucky. Get your grungy feet off the table!
2. Go to gungy.

gungy

and grungy (ˈgəndʒi and ˈgrəndʒi)
mod. messy; nasty; worn-out. (see also grunge.) Get your grungy feet off the sofa.

grungy

verb
See gungy
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • make old bones
  • mossback
  • bolt bucket
  • be (as) old as the hills
  • any old
  • a piece of old tackie
  • geezer
  • bucket of bolts
  • of old
  • old fogy
References in periodicals archive
The puffs that come with your powder can quickly get dirty and grungy Replace pooped-out puffs with these refills to keep powder.
This grungy but smart 1994 black-and-white classic flawlessly captures a moment in lesbian society.
* Successful newsletters are seldom "fun." The late Mike Morrison, once director of R&D at McGraw-Hill, always said that most successful newsletters "are written on subjects that are grungy, awful and dull.
In a tiny shop in the grungy East Village, I came across a Van Halen CD entitled OU812, which featured such suspicious track as "Finish What Ya Started" and "Cabo Wabo." In an upscale midtown record shop yanked out a CD by the Digable Planets which contained the song "La Femme Fetal," proving that those sleazy Chinese pirates had now expanded their operations to include gross mutilation of the French language.
Most orthodox upper-caste families keep a chipped and grungy cup and plate for the servant--it is kept separately and never used by anyone else.
Metrologists have long dreamed of defining the kilogram in terms of the universally agreed upon and unchanging values of fundamental physical constants rather than by an ill-defined lump of grungy matter.
But she used to be a bit more grungy. "I used to play drums in an alien girl rock band called the She Creatures," she says.
Deaf Inspector: With grungy guitar riffs and experimental keyboard playing, Deaf Inspector's sound falls together perfectly to create melodic tracks which you can't help but nod along to.
Headliners Deathcats dragged out some brutally grungy riffs on tracks like Alligator and Something In My Head, their fuzzed–up racket enhanced by some irresistible surf guitar, but it was Secret Motorbikes that stole the show.
Set in a futuristic Japan where zombies are domesticated as house pets and servants, genre auteur Sabu's "Miss Zombie" is a deadpan social satire, an ode to motherhood, and a self-consciously grungy homage to classic silent horror-thrillers.
Gaga, who went topless for a muddy grungy pose in V Magazine said that the particular look was very hard for her, as that was how she used to look when she was 19-21-years old, Metro.co.uk reported .
It's caustic, grungy power-pop ballad writing, and the end result is ridiculously fun.
The 23-year-old, who won the EE Rising Star Award at this year's BAFTAs, opts for a long sleeved number with lace detail, but it's the dark grungy pattern that gives it a wintry feel.
Lo-fi and upbeat, this grungy, pop track which features on their third album, Endless Flowers, is sure to introduce the group to new indie fans.
It can be purchased with antimicrobial additives, and can be easily removed and replaced when it gets grungy.