mangas

From Greek μάγκας (mágkas).

mangas (plural manges)

1. (now historical) A type of cocky, working-class man in early twentieth-century Greece, associated with violent behaviour, alcohol and hashish, and celebrated in various folk songs.
   • 2016, Jane K Cowan, Dance and the Body Politic in Northern Greece, page 174:

     Impoverished, disenfranchised, the mangas lived by petty crime and occasional labor.

   • 2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, Penguin, published 2020, page 172:

     The mangas was expected to cock a snook at authority, to be quick with a knife and ruthless in avenging insult.

Plural forms.

mangas

1. plural of manga
   • 2006, Chi Hang Li, Chris Patmore, Hayden Scott Baron, Complete Guide to Anime Techniques:

     Many characters in long-running mangas grow up as their audiences do: they get married, raise children, and so on.

• Gasman, Magans, gasman

• IPA^(key): /mɑ̃.ɡa/

• Audio:

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• Homophone: manga

mangas m

1. plural of manga

mangas f pl

1. plural of manga

mangas

1. second-person singular present indicative of mangar

mangas f pl

1. plural of manga

mangas m pl or f pl

1. plural of manga

• IPA^(key): /ˈmanɡas/ [ˈmãŋ.ɡas]
• Rhymes: -anɡas
• Syllabification: man‧gas

mangas f pl

1. plural of manga

mangas

1. second-person singular present indicative of mangar

mangas

1. indefinite genitive singular of manga