Mank

Mank is a diminutive or dismissive term (originally somewhat pejorative) for a male of the working class in Gretchland. Due to the prevelance of the name Mank (short for Manco 'grabber'), nobles began to refer to all male peasants as manks. It has since trickled down and been picked up by townspeople, merchants, and villeins wanting to refer generally or roughly to their fellow men.
By extension, the term has come to focus on the working aspect of serfs, peasants, and any workers-for-hire and thus used to reference any object or device that gets work done. It is used jocularly to refer to male genitalia (by synechdoche) or to any mischievous hob, sprite, or bogey or to a devil.
==Definition==
mank {n} man, person, peasant, knave, worker, penis, pizzle, man-like devil, handle, lifting machine
==Phrases==
I didn't get mank (~ a small coin, a day's wages, a portion, even one serf/peasant (hired for work))
mankass
every man mank (along with every Fal and Tal, every Wan, Dick, and Harry, every Non, Dick, and Harry)
mank off! (cf. wank off, toss off)
Mank-o'-lantern
Tal Frost / Mank Frost
==See Also==
List of Names Derived from Elvish
==Souces==
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/jack?s=t
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack
http://etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=jack
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