stinking
adjEtymology
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”).
Definitions
Having a pungent smell.
Very bad and undesirable.
- I have a stinking cold.
Very drunk.
- Oh, I got stinking—and, worse, acted like the world's worst heel to top it off. I passed out mentally about the time we left the club—which must have been around 2:30—but unfortunately didn't pass out physically.
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An intensifier, a hypallage.
- We don’t need your stinking sympathy.
- “Everyone shut up! Lord ThunderSteel commands it! I am your leader! I have this badge that says so!” “We don’t need no stinking badges!”
present participle and gerund of stink
The emission of a foul smell.
The neighborhood
Derived
butt-stinking, cry stinking fish, stinking acacia, stinking ash, stinking badger, stinking cedar, stinking chamomile, stinking chun, stinking corpse lily, stinking goosefoot, stinking gum, stinking hawksbeard, stinking hellebore, stinking iris, stinking juniper, stinkingly, stinking nanny, stinkingness, stinking nightshade, stinking ninny, stinking rich, stinking sumac, stinking toe, stinking willie, stinking willy
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for stinking. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA