Manginuity

An adjectival combination of the words "man" and "ingenuity". Manginuity frequently involves the use of duct tape.

1) The basic engineering and technical know-how that comes with being male. 2) The inherint male ability to jury rig anything, or make a simple device out of common or household items a la McGyver.

Can be conjugated to a verb, "mangineer".

"Sorry I'm late, the faucet was leaking and the wife made me mangineer a solution."

Dude A- The lamps on my old fan fell off, so I took some duct tape and jury rigged the thing.

Dude B- Man, thats some real manginuity

by capncrutch January 09, 2009

Manginuity

When a man must improvise because the correct solution is not available at the time.

A group of men had to use manginuity when cutting firewood because they did not have a sawhorse

by YourChoom August 23, 2025