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astink

adj

Etymology

From a- + stink.

  1. inherited from *stengʷ-✻
  2. inherited from *stinkwaną✻
  3. inherited from stincan
  4. inherited from stynken
  5. prefixed as astink — “a + stink”

Definitions

  1. Stinking.

    • The earth between and beyond the lines Ravaged and sown with steel And churned with blood And astink with decaying men,
    • And the doctor’s Jezebel come running from her lustful bed, still astink with sin and fear.
    • […] the Rector ordered that his room should be cleaned and all the poisons he kept there taken away. Six weeks later it was all astink again.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA