mangas
English
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editmangas (plural manges)
- (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.
Etymology 2
editPlural forms.
Noun
editmangas
- 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.
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editmangas m
Galician
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editmangas f pl
Verb
editmangas
Portuguese
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editmangas f pl
Noun
editmangas m pl or f pl
Spanish
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editmangas f pl
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editmangas
Swedish
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editmangas
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