stink
English
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 stinke (“to stink”), Swedish stinka (“to stink”), Icelandic stökkva (“to spring, leap, jump”).
Pronunciation
Verb
stink (third-person singular simple present stinks, present participle stinking, simple past stank or stunk, past participle stunk)
- (intransitive) To have a strong bad smell.
- (intransitive, informal) To be greatly inferior; to perform badly.
- That movie stinks. I didn't even stay for the end.
- (intransitive) To give an impression of dishonesty or untruth.
- Something stinks about the politician's excuses.
- (transitive) To cause to stink; to affect by a stink.
Synonyms
- (have a strong bad smell): pong, reek
- (be greatly inferior): suck, blow
- (give an impression of dishonesty or untruth): be fishy
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Noun
stink (plural stinks)
- A strong bad smell.
- (informal) A complaint or objection.
- If you don't make a stink about the problem, nothing will be done.
- (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):
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Adjective
stink (comparative more stink, superlative most stink)
- (Caribbean, Guyana) Bad-smelling, stinky[1].
- 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,[1]
- Everyone is up in arms but it smells stink because it smells of racism…
- 2014, Taureef Mohammed, “Imam recounts 55-day Venezuelan horror,” Trinidad and Tobago Guardian, 26 May, 2014,[2]
- 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.
- 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,[1]
References
- ^ Lise Winer (editor), Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago: On Historical Principles, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008, p. 854
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Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch stinken, from Middle Dutch stinken, from Old Dutch stincan, from Proto-Germanic *stinkwaną.
Verb
stink (present stink, present participle stinkende, past participle gestink)
- to stink
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
stink
- (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of stinken
- (deprecated template usage) imperative of stinken
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Middle English
Noun
stink
- Alternative form of stynk
Swedish
Verb
stink
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