stank
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Verb
stank
Adjective
stank (not comparable)
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, derogatory) Foul-smelling, stinking, unclean.
- 2002, Tasha C. Miller, Assout: Incoherent Thoughts and Poems of an Unemployed Black Girl, page 11:
- Fishy, pussy funky elevator / Pissy, broke ass project elevator / Old baby piss, stank ass horse, cat piss smelling funky hot ass elevator / I'm not climbing no 17 flights […]
- 2003, Tariq Nasheed, Play or be played, page 124:
- This is why most top-notch women can't stand stank hoes. Classy women have more contempt for these women than men do.
- 2010, R. Scott, Nine Months and a Year Later..., page 31:
- He wants my love; he wants the love from here and just what's between your stank-ass legs.
Etymology 2
Old French estanc, (French étang), from Latin stagnum (“a pool”). Compare stagnant, stagnate.
Noun
stank (plural stanks)
- (UK, dialect) Water retained by an embankment; a pool of water.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Robert of Brunne to this entry?)
- c. 1425, Edward, Second Duke of York [i.e., Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York], “Of the Hart and His Nature”, in W[illia]m A[dolf] Baillie-Grohman and F[lorence] Baillie-Grohman, editors, The Master of Game by Edward, Second Duke of York: The Oldest English Book on Hunting, London: Chatto & Windus, published 1909, →OCLC, page 33:
- And he [the hart] fleeth then mightily and far from the hounds, that is to say he hath gone a great way from them, then he will go into the stank, and will soil therein once or twice in all the stank and then he will come out again by the same way that he went in, and then he shall ruse again the same way that he came (the length of) a bow shot or more, and then he shall ruse out of the way, for to stall or squatt to rest him, and that he doeth for he knoweth well that the hounds shall come by the fues [footing] into the stank where he was.
- (UK, dialect) A dam or mound to stop water.
Derived terms
Etymology 3
Old French estanc, or Italian stanco. See stanch (adjective).
Adjective
stank (comparative more stank, superlative most stank)
- (obsolete) weak; worn out
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)
Etymology 4
Compare Swedish word, meaning "to pant".
Verb
stank (third-person singular simple present stanks, present participle stanking, simple past and past participle stanked)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “stank”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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Breton
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French estanc.
Noun
stank m
Danish
Pronunciation
Noun
stank c (singular definite stanken, plural indefinite stanke)
Declension
Verb
stank
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch stanc, from Old Dutch stank, from Proto-Germanic *stankwaz.
Pronunciation
Noun
stank m (plural stanken, diminutive stankje n)
German
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aŋk
Verb
stank
- (deprecated template usage) First-person singular preterite of stinken.
- (deprecated template usage) Third-person singular preterite of stinken.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Low German stank
Noun
stank m (definite singular stanken, indefinite plural stanker, definite plural stankene)
References
- “stank” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Low German stank
Noun
stank m (definite singular stanken, indefinite plural stankar, definite plural stankane)
References
- “stank” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *stankwaz, whence also Old English stenċ.
Noun
stank m
Swedish
Pronunciation
audio: (file)
Noun
stank c
- stink, stench (a bad smell)
- 1938, Ludvig Nordström, Lort-Sverige
- Denna stank hade nämligen samma underliga egenskap som liklukt att så att säga smyga sig fram och liksom långsamt, gradvis underminera luften.
- "This stench had the same strange quality as the smell of corpses, that is so to say sneaked up on you and kind of slowly, gradually undermine the air."
- Denna stank hade nämligen samma underliga egenskap som liklukt att så att säga smyga sig fram och liksom långsamt, gradvis underminera luften.
- 1938, Ludvig Nordström, Lort-Sverige
Declension
Declension of stank | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | stank | stanken | stanker | stankerna |
Genitive | stanks | stankens | stankers | stankernas |
Verb
stank
- (deprecated template usage) past tense of stinka.
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