stinking

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɪŋkɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋkɪŋ

Etymology 1

From Middle English stynkynge, stinkinge, stinkinde, stinkende, stynkande, stynkand, from Old English stincende, from Proto-Germanic *stinkwandz (“stinking”), present participle of Proto-Germanic *stinkwaną (“to stink”), equivalent to stink +‎ -ing. Cognate with Dutch stinkend (“stinking, stinky”), German stinkend (“stinking, stinky”), Danish stinkende (“stinking, stinky”), Norwegian stinkende (“stinking, stinky”).

Adjective

stinking (comparative more stinking, superlative most stinking)

1. Having a pungent smell.
2. Very bad and undesirable.

   Despite leading the way for years, the new model is really stinking.

3. (euphemistic) An intensifier, a minced oath.

   We don’t need your stinking sympathy.

Translations

bad smell

• Bashkir: һаҫыҡ (haśıq)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 臭的

• Dutch: stinkt (nl)
• German: stinkig
• Greek:

  Ancient: δυσώδης (dusṓdēs), κάκοσμος (kákosmos)

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• Italian: puzzolente (it), puzzoso, fetente (it), fetido (it), maleodorante (it), graveolente
• Latin: foetidus
• Maori: whakapiro
• Portuguese: fedorento (pt), fedido (pt)
• Romanian: împuțit (ro)
• Russian: воню́чий (ru) (vonjúčij)
• Scots: mingin
• Volapük: lusmelik

very bad

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Verb

stinking

1. present participle of stink

Etymology 2

From Middle English stinkinge, stynkynge, equivalent to stink +‎ -ing.

Noun

stinking (plural stinkings)

1. The emission of a foul smell.
   • 2013, Phaedra. C Pezzullo, Cultural Studies and Environment, Revisited, page 42:

     From the magnificent ejaculation of the Waimangu geyser, to the tiniest of gaseous emissions, descriptions of the thermal reserve were rife with dischargings, bubblings and stinkings, quiverings and palpitations, orifices and protuberances.

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Middle English

Noun

stinking

1. Alternative form of stynkynge