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    Manx

    Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
    Related topics: Nationality & race
    Manx /mæŋks/ adjective  SANfrom or relating to the Isle of Man or its people 马恩岛的；马恩岛人的 the Manx government 马恩岛政府
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    Manx• There is even a suggestion of official encouragement to depositors to use the Manx bank shortly before it went bust.• How the Manx cat first arrived on the Isle of Man is hotly debated.• If two tailless Manx cats are mated, the kittens are so deformed that they nearly always die before birth.• So Manx kittens are usually produced by crossing tailless cats with tailed ones.• Floreat Manx Medau, if so.• Clumsy on land Manx shear waters may be, but they are elegant fliers and first-class navigators.• A Manx shearwater colony has a particularly powerful stench.    Origin Manx (1500-1600) From an unrecorded Old Norse manskr, from Mana “Isle of Man”
    Manx adjectiveChinese
    the Isle relating or from Corpus of to


    Manx
    Manx /mæŋks/ adjective
     Date: 1500-1600
     Origin: From an unrecorded Old Norse manskr, from Mana __Isle of Man__
    from or relating to the Isle of Man or its people:
        the Manx government


    ManxBrE /mæŋks/ 🔊NAmE /mæŋks/ 🔊 adjectiveof or connected with the Isle of Man, its people or the language once spoken there 马恩岛的；马恩岛人的；马恩语的