stink
Part of speech: verb
noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English stinken, from Old English stincan, from Proto-Germanic *stinkwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *stengʷ-, *stegʷ- (“to push, thrust, strike”). Cognate with West Frisian stjonke (“to stink”), Dutch stinken (“to stink”), German stinken (“to stink”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk stinke (“to stink”), Swedish stinka (“to stink”), Icelandic stökkva (“to spring, leap, jump”).
Inflected forms:
form: stinks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stinking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stank
pos: verb
tags: past
form: stunk
pos: verb
tags: past
form: stunk
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stinks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more stink
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most stink
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: To have a strong bad smell.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To be greatly inferior; to perform badly.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
stative
examples: That movie stinks. I didn't even stay for the end.
They gave me Out of Africa, by Isak Dinesen. I thought it was going to stink, but it didn't. It was a very good book.
My French stinks, Langdon thought, but my zodiac iconography is pretty good. Taurus was always the bull. Astrology was a symbolic constant all over the world.
Improve your golf swing by taking your mate to the driving range. If you're good, you can show off and give her some tips. If you stink, play it for laughs.
gloss: To give an impression of dishonesty, untruth, or sin.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Something stinks about the politician's excuses.
The parish stank of idolatry, abominable rites were practiced in secret, and in all the bounds there was no one had a more evil name for the black traffic than one Alison Sempill, who bode at the Skerburnfoot.
gloss: To cause to stink; to affect by a stink.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: A strong bad smell.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: “I’m thankful for this beautiful morning!” He points toward the sky. “See that sunrise? Smell that air—” / “That’s stink from the rendering plant.”
gloss: A complaint or objection.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: If you don't make a stink about the problem, nothing will be done.
She's made a big stink about me calling her "Miss", not "Ms".
gloss: Bad; inferior; worthless.
pos: adj
tags: New-Zealand
slang
examples: The concert was stink. / That was a stink concert.
gloss: Bad-smelling, stinky.
pos: adj
tags: Caribbean
Guyana
Jamaica
examples: 2013, Stabroek News, 19 February 2013, cited by Deborah Jan Osman Backer in a speech delivered in the National Assembly during the Budget Debate, 2013,
Everyone is up in arms but it smells stink because it smells of racism…
Spending hours in a “stink" morgue, being called “Taliban”, thinking of getting shot in the head by officers—memories of Venezuela that have left Hamza Mohammed, imam of the Montrose mosque, still trembling today.
2016, Kei Miller, Augustown, New York: Pantheon, Chapter 1, p. 5,
[…] what Ma Taffy smells on this early afternoon makes her sit up straight. She smells it high and ripe and stink on the air, like a bright green jackfruit in season being pulled to the rocky ground below.
Derived words: astink
destink
firestink
fish and company stink after three days
give out stink
kick up a stink
like stink
like stink on shit
make a stink
money does not stink
outstink
Palestinkian
raise a stink
stink a buzzard off a gut wagon
stink a dog off a gut wagon
stinkage
stink ant
stinkard
stink a skunk off a gut wagon
stink badger
stinkbag
stinkbait
stinkball
stink bean
stink beetle
stinkbird
stinkbomb
stinkbug
stinkbush
stink-cat
stink cedar
stinkdamp
stink egg
stinker
stink eye
stinkfest
stink fighting
stink head
stinkhole
stinkhorn
stinkhouse
stinkless
stink like a mackerel
stink like a mackerel in the moonlight
stink like a mackerel in the sun
stink like a polecat
stink line
stink machine
stinko
Stinkomalee
stinkometer
stink on ice
stink out
stinkpot
stink pretty
stinks
stinksome
stinkstone
stink the joint out
stink to high heaven
stink trap
stink tree
stink up
stinkweed
stinkwood
stinkwort
stinky
think one's shit doesn't stink
unstink
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: химия
roman: himija