stanky

English

Etymology

stank +‎ -y

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -æŋki

Adjective

stanky (comparative more stanky, superlative most stanky)

1. (slang) smelly; stinky
   • 1980 December 13, Mitzel, “Dale Barbre's Murder Transformed”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 21, page 13:

     A gross-gutted, bulb-nosed, bourbon-stanky Boston flatfoot in plain clothes wrinkled white sox, with a race track tip-sheet stuffed in his back pocket trying real hard to mingle unnoticed at an elegant Buddies "do" to glean inside-dope.

   • 2010, Kevin Mills, Baby Codes: 101 Winning Combinations to Help Your Baby Sleep:

     As fun as fish are to watch, they require a lot of fish food, and fish food makes fish poop, and pooping fish make for a stanky tank after too long. Just say no to stanky tanks.

Derived terms

• stanky leg