From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishManxManx /mæŋks/ adjective SANfrom or relating to the Isle of Man or its people the Manx government
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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” 