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Stink   /stɪŋk/   Listen
Stink

noun
1.
A distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant.  Synonyms: fetor, foetor, malodor, malodour, mephitis, reek, stench.
verb
(past stank; past part. stunk; pres. part. stinking)
1.
Be extremely bad in quality or in one's performance.
2.
Smell badly and offensively.  Synonym: reek.



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"Stink" Quotes from Famous Books



... eructation and downwards ? 29. Whether it kills the asparagus in the urine? 30. What quantity may be taken of it in prime ? 31. Whether a sprig of mint or willow growes equally as out of other waters? 32. In what time they putrify and stink ? ...
— The Natural History of Wiltshire • John Aubrey
... the atmosphere was completely delightful to Terrestrial nostrils—which was unusual, for most other planets, no matter how well adapted for colonization otherwise, tended, from the human viewpoint, anyway, to stink. Not that they were not colonized nevertheless, for the population of Earth was expanding at too great a rate to permit merely olfactory considerations to rule out an otherwise suitable planet. This particular group of settlers had been lucky, indeed, to ...
— The Venus Trap • Evelyn E. Smith
... method of defence increases the repugnance with which it inspires us. If it judges itself to be in danger, the Meloe resorts to spontaneous bleeding. From its joints a yellowish, oily fluid oozes, which stains your fingers and makes them stink. This is the creature's blood. The English, because of its trick of discharging oily blood when on the defensive, call this insect the Oil-beetle. It would not be a particularly interesting Beetle save for its metamorphoses and the peregrinations ...
— The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles • Jean Henri Fabre
... toward the glove-box. "That Leech & Rigdon's in there; you'd better get it out before I go to the Flemings'. The guy at the drive-in made a positive identification; it's the one he sold Fleming. I saw the rest of the pistols he has there; don't waste time looking him up about them. They stink. And I saw Tip this morning. He got young Jarrett sprung on a writ." He thought for a moment. "What does this do to the ...
— Murder in the Gunroom • Henry Beam Piper
... has its drawbacks. Incessant rain, perennial stink, and big prices can go to make up a heaven for few people. But for taking the taste of really bitter hard times out of one's mouth, the place ...
— The Recipe for Diamonds • Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne


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