stink

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Pronunciation

• enPR: stĭngk, IPA: /stɪŋk/

Verb

stink (stinks, present participle stinking; past stank, 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.

4. (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

Translations

• French: puer, empester
• German: stinken, riechen, müffeln
• Italian: puzzare
• Portuguese: feder, tresandar
• Russian: воня́ть
• Spanish: heder, apestar, cantar (colloquial), oler mal

Translations

• German: stinken
• Italian: fare schifo
• Spanish: apestar

Translations

• German: stinken
• Italian: puzzare

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. (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

• French: puanteur
• German: Gestank
• Italian: puzza, fetore
• Portuguese: fedor, fetidez
• Russian: вонь
• Spanish: tufo, hedor, peste, hediondez

Translations

• French: tapage
• Italian: protesta, reclamo

Adjective

stink

1. (Caribbean, Guyana) Bad-smelling, stinky.
   • 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,

     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,

     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.

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