stink

English

Etymology

From Middle English stinken, from Old English stincan, from Proto-Germanic *stinkanan. Compare Dutch stinken, German stinken, Swedish stinka.

Pronunciation

• enPR: stĭngk, IPA: /stɪŋk/, X-SAMPA: /stINk/

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋk

Verb

stink (third-person singular simple present stinks, present participle stinking, simple past stank or stunk, past participle stunk)

1. (intransitive) To have a strong bad smell.
2. (intransitive, informal) To be greatly inferior; to perform badly.

   That movie stinks. I didn't even stay for the end.

3. (intransitive) To give an impression of dishonesty or untruth.

   Something stinks about the politician's excuses.

Synonyms

• (have a strong bad smell): pong, reek
• (be greatly inferior): suck, blow
• (give an impression of dishonesty or untruth): be fishy

Derived terms

• stink up
• stink out

Translations

have a strong bad smell

• Arabic: نتن (ar) (nátuna, nátina)
• Burmese: နံ (my) (nan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 發臭 (cmn), 发臭 (cmn) (fāchòu), 發臭味 (cmn), 发臭味 (cmn) (fā chòuwèi), 發惡臭 (cmn), 发恶臭 (cmn) (fā èchòu)

• Crimean Tatar: sasımaq
• Czech: smrdět (cs)
• Dutch: stinken (nl)
• Finnish: haista (fi)
• French: puer (fr), empester (fr)
• German: stinken (de)
• Hawaiian: hauna
• Hungarian: bűzlik (hu)
• Italian: puzzare (it)
• Japanese: 臭う (ja) (におう, niou), 悪臭を放つ (ja) (あくしゅうをはなつ, akushū-o hanatsu)
• Latvian: smirdēt (lv)

• Lithuanian: smirdėti (lt)
• Neapolitan: fete
• Portuguese: feder (pt), tresandar (pt)
• Quechua: hunyay (qu)
• Romanian: puți (ro)
• Russian: вонять (ru) (vonját')
• Scots: ming
• Serbo-Croatian: smrditi (sh)
• Sicilian: fetiri
• Spanish: heder (es), apestar (es)
• Swahili: nuka (sw)
• Swedish: stinka (sv)
• Telugu: దుర్గంధము (te)
• Ukrainian: смердіти (uk) (smerdíty)
• Volapük: lusmelön (vo)

informal: be greatly inferior

• Finnish: haista (fi)
• German: stinken (de)
• Italian: fare schifo (it)

• Japanese: くだらない (ja) (kudaranai)
• Swedish: vara urusel (sv)

give an impression of dishonesty or untruth

• Dutch: stinken (nl)
• Finnish: haista (fi)
• German: stinken (de)

• Hungarian: bűzlik (hu)
• Japanese: 臭い (ja) (くさい, kusai)
• Swedish: stinka (sv)

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Translations to be checked

• Catalan: fer pudor, pudir
• Indonesian: berbau, amis, menyengat, menyengat hidung
• Interlingua: puter
• Romanian: pute
• Spanish: apestar (1), oler a podrido (3)

Noun

stink (plural stinks)

1. A strong bad smell.
2. (informal) A complaint or objection.

   If you don't make a stink about the problem, nothing will be done.

3. (in plural stinks, slang) chemistry (as a subject taught in school)
4. (slang, New Zealand) A failure or unfortunate event.

   The concert was stink.

Synonyms

• (strong bad smell): fetor, odour/odor, pong, reek, smell, stench
• (informal: complaint or objection):
• (slang: chemistry):

Translations

strong bad smell

• Crimean Tatar: sasıq
• Czech: smrad (cs) m
• Dutch: stank (nl) m
• Finnish: löyhkä (fi), haju (fi)
• French: puanteur (fr) f
• German: Gestank (de) m
• Hungarian: bűz (hu)
• Italian: puzza (it) f

• Japanese: 悪臭 (ja) (akushū)
• Latin: paedor (la) m
• Portuguese: fedor (pt) m
• Russian: вонь (ru) (von') f
• Sicilian: fetu
• Spanish: tufo (es) m
• Swedish: stank (sv)
• Volapük: lusmel (vo)

informal: complaint or objection

• French: tapage (fr) m

slang: chemistry

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Translations to be checked

• Catalan: pudor
• Interlingua: fetor
• Spanish: hedor

Derived terms

• kick up a stink
• stink badger
• stinkbomb
• stinker
• stink machine
• stinky

Anagrams

• knits, skint, tinks

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪŋk

Verb

stink

1. first-person singular present indicative of stinken
2. imperative of stinken

Anagrams

• snikt

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Swedish

Verb

stink

1. imperative of stinka