stinkn.
/stɪŋk/, U.S. /stɪŋk/ 1.
a. A foul, disgusting, or offensive smell: = stench n. 2.
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > [noun] > fetid smells
stenchc893
reekeOE
weffea1300
stink1382
fise14..
smeek?c1425
fist1440
fetorc1450
stew1487
moisture1542
putor1565
pouant1602
funk1606
graveolence1623
hogo1654
whiff1668
fogo1794
stythe1823
malodour1825
pen and ink1859
body scent1875
pong1900
niffa1903
hum1906
taint1927
honk1953
bowf1985
stank1996
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Joel ii. 20 The stynk of hym shal stye vp.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11860 Þe roting þat him rennes vte, þe stinck þat ai es him a-bute, Ne mai na liueand man it thole.
c1420 Sir Amadace (Camden) vi Suche a stinke in the chapelle he hade, That dwelle ther he ne myȝte.
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 62v I am suere that the white laus tibi hath the stynk that Dioscorides speketh of.
1611 Bible (King James) 2 Macc. ix. 10 And the man that thought a little afore he could reach to the starres of heauen, no man could endure to carry for his intollerable stinke . View more context for this quotation
1674 R. Boyle Excellency Theol. ii. iii. 150 Why the smell of Castor or Assa Fœtida produces in most persons that which they call a stink rather than a perfume.
1727 A. Pope Thoughts on Var. Subj. in Misc. Prose & Verse II. 356 A little Whiff of it [Ambergrise]..is very agreeable; but when a Man holds a whole Lump of it to your Nose, it is a Stink.
1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days ii. iii. 273 He had been kicking up horrid stinks for some time in his study.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 676 Hajek has detected in ozæna a short bacillus..which possesses the property of decomposing organic substances with the formation of a penetrating stink.
b. figurative.
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1673 J. Bunyan Differences Judgm. 8 The Persons..are now a stink, and reproach to religion.
c. A contemptible person, a stinkard. slang.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [noun] > state or quality of being contemptible > contemptible person
wormc825
wretchOE
thingOE
hinderlingc1175
harlot?c1225
mixa1300
villain1303
whelpc1330
wonnera1340
bismera1400
vilec1400
beasta1425
creaturec1450
dog bolt1465
fouling?a1475
drivel1478
shit1508
marmoset1523
mammeta1529
pilgarlica1529
pode1528
slave1537
slim1548
skit-brains?1553
grasshopper1556
scavenger1563
old boss1566
rag1566
shrub1566
ketterela1572
shake-rag1571
skybala1572
mumpsimus1573
smatchetc1582
squib1586
scabship1589
vassal1589
baboon1592
Gibraltar1593
polecat1593
mushroom1594
nodc1595
cittern-head1598
nit1598
stockfish1598
cum-twang1599
dish-wash1599
pettitoe1599
mustard-token1600
viliaco1600
cargo1602
stump1602
snotty-nose1604
sprat1605
wormling1605
brock1607
dogfly?1611
shag-rag1611
shack-rag1612
thrum1612
rabbita1616
fitchock1616
unworthy1616
baseling1618
shag1620
glow-worm1624
snip1633
the son of a worm1633
grousea1637
shab1637
wormship1648
muckworm1649
whiffler1659
prig1679
rotten egg1686
prigster1688
begged fool1693
hang-dog1693
bugger1694
reptile1697
squinny1716
snool1718
ramscallion1734
footer1748
jackass1756
hallion1789
skite1790
rattlesnake1791
snot1809
mudworm1814
skunk1816
stirrah1816
spalpeen1817
nyaff1825
skin1825
weed1825
tiger1827
beggar1834
despicability1837
squirt1844
prawn1845
shake1846
white mouse1846
scurf1851
sweep1853
cockroach1856
bummer1857
medlar1859
cunt1860
shuck1862
missing link1863
schweinhund1871
creepa1876
bum1882
trashbag1886
tinhorn1887
snot-rag1888
rodent1889
whelpling1889
pie eatera1891
mess1891
schmuck1892
fucker1893
cheapskate1894
cocksucker1894
gutter-bird1896
perisher1896
skate1896
schmendrick1897
nyamps1900
ullage1901
fink1903
onion1904
punk1904
shitepoke1905
tinhorn sport1906
streeler1907
zob1911
stink1916
motherfucker1918
Oscar1918
shitass1918
shit-face1923
tripe-hound1923
gimp1924
garbage can1925
twerp1925
jughead1926
mong1926
fuck?1927
arsehole1928
dirty dog1928
gazook1928
muzzler1928
roach1929
shite1929
mook1930
lug1931
slug1931
woodchuck1931
crud1932
dip1932
bohunkus1933
lint-head1933
Nimrod1933
warb1933
fuck-piga1935
owl-hoot1934
pissant1935
poot1935
shmegegge1937
motheree1938
motorcycle1938
squiff1939
pendejo1940
snotnose1941
jerkface1942
slag1943
yuck1943
fuckface?1945
fuckhead?1945
shit-head1945
shite-hawk1948
schlub1950
asswipe1953
mother1955
weenie1956
hard-on1958
rass hole1959
schmucko1959
bitch ass1961
effer1961
lamer1961
arsewipe1962
asshole1962
butthole1962
cock1962
dipshit1963
motherfuck1964
dork1965
bumhole1967
mofo1967
tosspot1967
crudball1968
dipstick1968
douche1968
frickface1968
schlong1968
fuckwit1969
rassclaat1969
ass1970
wank1970
fecker1971
wanker1971
butt-fucker1972
slimeball1972
bloodclaat1973
fuckwad1974
mutha1974
suck1974
cocksuck1977
tosser1977
plank1981
sleazebag1981
spastic1981
dweeb1982
bumboclaat1983
dickwad1983
scuzzbag1983
sleazeball1983
butt-face1984
dickweed1984
saddie1985
butt plug1986
jerkweed1988
dick-sucker1989
microcephalic1989
wankstain1990
sadster1992
buttmunch1993
fanny1995
jackhole1996
fassyhole1997
fannybaws2000
fassy2002
1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist i. 3 Rody Kickham was a decent fellow but Nasty Roche was a stink.
1918 E. Pound Let. 4 June (1971) 137 Meredith is, to me, chiefly a stink. I should never write on him as I detest him too much ever to trust myself as critic of him.
1950 R. Moore Candlemas Bay v. 281 And the rest of you little stinks, shut up, too!
1972 D. Devine Three Green Bottles 102 That stink, Celia Armitage, had somehow found out.
2.
a. Evil-smelling quality, offensive odour: = stench n. 3.
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > [noun] > quality or condition
stenchc1175
stinka1325
stinkingness1382
crueltyc1420
contagya1513
dain1574
unsweetness1596
contagion1662
pungency1663
poignancy1677
sulphureousness1690
fetidness1704
poignance1782
pungence1810
fetidity1829
piquance1867
malodorousness1886
smelliness1892
niffiness1942
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2556 Summe he deden in vn-ðewed swinc, For it was fugel and ful o stinc.
c1366 G. Chaucer A.B.C. 56 But if þou my socour bee To stink eterne he wole my gost exile.
c1440 Alphabet of Tales 171 Yitt sho mott not com att hur for stynk with-oute sho had at hur nece many wele-saueryng spycis.
1528 D. Lindsay Dreme 325 That myrke Mansioun is tapessit with stynk.
1608 S. Rowlands Humors Looking Glasse B 4 b One of the damned crew that liues by drinke, And by Tobacco's stillified stink.
1745 C. H. Williams in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his Contemp. (1843) I. 65 But when the first [cracker] went off she threw the rest on the tea-table, where, one after another, they all went off, with much noise and not a little stink.
1882 ‘Ouida’ In Maremma I. 184 There is so much stink of oil and sickly smell of silkworms.
b. figurative.
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1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 6518 The syxte synne ys glotonye; þat ys a shameful vyleynye þat men doun of mete and drynk, For ouermoche ys abominable & stynk.
3.
a. slang. (See quots. 1819 and 1851.) Also, a row or fuss; a furore. Now chiefly in phrases to raise (kick up, make) a stink.
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the mind > emotion > fear > apprehension > [noun] > fright caused by alarm
frighta1325
affrayc1380
fray1398
gloppeninga1400
alarma1460
scare1548
affright1566
affrightment1593
aghastment1594
surprise1609
gastc1686
gliff1732
stew1806
stink1819
feeze1825
startlement1927
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > infamy or notoriety > [noun] > a scandal or infamous event or state of things
mislander1531
scandal1613
scanmag1781
stink1819
affair1823
esclandre1832
scandalum magnatum1850
1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. (at cited word) When any robbery of moment has been committed, which causes much alarm, or of which much is said in the daily papers, the family people will say, there is a great stink about it.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 250/2 The newspapers..had raised before the eye and mind of the public, what the ‘patterers’ of his class proverbially call a ‘stink’,—that is, had opened the eyes of the unwary to the movements of ‘Chelsea George’.
1907 J. Masefield Tarpaulin Muster xii. 131 Them topsails had a good look along the yard..or there was a jim hickey of a stink raised.
1913 R. Kipling Diversity of Creatures (1917) 293 We mustn't be tried! It'll make an infernal international stink.
1942 Tee Emm (Air Ministry) 2 81 Do you do it merely because there's a stink if you don't?
1948 ‘N. Shute’ No Highway ii. 31 I remember the Russians kicking up a stink.
1959 ‘M. Cronin’ Dead & Done With iv. 56 The first thing he'd do when he got back was see his M.P. and kick up a stink.
1976 L. Sanders Hamlet Warning (1977) iii. 31 [She] commanded a world press. She could raise a tremendous stink if she chose to do so.
b. like stink, furiously, intensely. Cf. like adv. 1c. colloquial.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > acting vigorously or energetically [phrase] > with great vigour or energy
with (also in) mood and maineOE
vigour13..
with or by (all one's) might and mainc1330
with (one's) forcec1380
like anything1665
hammer and tongs1708
like stour1787
(in) double tides1788
like blazes1818
like winking1827
with a will1827
like winky1830
like all possessed1833
in a big way1840
like (or worse than) sin1840
full swing1843
like a Trojan1846
like one o'clock1847
like sixty1848
like forty1852
like wildfire1857
like old boots1865
like blue murder1867
like steam1905
like stink1929
like one thing1938
like a demon1945
up a storm1953
1929 R. C. Sherriff Journey's End I. 40 If you see a Minnie coming..you have to judge it and run like stink sometimes.
1938 M. Allingham Fashion in Shrouds xv. 240 It's raining like stink.
1945 ‘P. Woodruff’ Call Next Witness ii. v. 114 He clapped in his heels and rode like stink.
1955 M. Allingham Beckoning Lady iii. 40 The telephone's here..and when it rings you have to run like stink before the caller gives up.
1972 D. Devine Three Green Bottles 11 She wasn't really clever, she just worked like stink.
c. In other colloquial phrases (parallel to the use of hell and similar words).
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1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 16 May 26 I bet they've been giving old Jerry stink this afternoon.
1977 I. Shaw Beggarman, Thief i. ii. 21 We'd've been in a stink of a mess without him.
4. plural. University and Public School slang for Natural Science (originally and now chiefly for Chemistry) as a subject of study or university examinations.
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the world > matter > chemistry > chemistry as a science > [noun] > as a subject of study
stinks1869
chem1910
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > branch of knowledge > systematic knowledge, science > [noun] > of material universe
philosophya1387
natural philosophya1393
natural science?a1425
experimental philosophy1651
science1779
stinks1869
1869 ‘W. Bradwood’ The O.V.H. v He had abandoned further classics in final schools, and was aiming sedulously at a class in ‘stinks’.
1900 J. S. Farmer Public School Word-bk. Stinks subs. (general).—Chemistry. Also as a nickname for a lecturer thereon.
1902 Daily Chron. 12 Nov. 7/1 The old public schools..look on Mathematics as ‘'tics’ and Natural Science as ‘stinks,’ presumably from the days when Chemistry was the only branch of Natural Science taught.
1914 ‘I. Hay’ Lighter Side School Life iv. 116 Master Nixon..had pointed out that it would be a good thing to enrol as a member some one who understood ‘Chemistry and Stinks generally’.
1928 R. Cullum Myst. Barren Lands xi. 107 You can't afford to use up the source that gives you a living so you can carry on with your stinks.
1945 ‘R. Crompton’ William & Brains Trust vii. 129 ‘English isn't bad, 'cause ole Sarky can't see what you're doin' at the back, an' Stinks isn't bad, 'cause you can get some jolly good bangs if you mix the wrong things together.’
1955 Times 26 July 10/5 Everyone who did even elementary ‘stinks’ at school remembers the name of Bunsen and his burner—even if nothing else remains in memory from those hours in the ‘labs’.
1961 A. Wilson Old Men at Zoo i. 37 Eventually..the laboratory work will be on a scale that will make this place look like a school stinks room.
Compounds
stink-ball n. a missile contrived for the purpose of emitting a suffocating vapour when thrown among the enemy (see quot. 1802).
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > [noun] > grenade > smoke grenade
stink-pot1669
stink-ball1753
smoke grenadea1944
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or shell > shell > smoke or gas shell
smoke-ball1753
stink-ball1753
gas shell1915
tear-shell1916
smoke shell1919
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Ball Stink-balls, those which yield a great stench when fired to annoy the enemy.
1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. at Ball Stink-balls are prepared by a composition of mealed powder,..assa-fœtida, seraphim~gum or ferula, and bug and stinking herbs.
stink beetle n. = stink-bug n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Heteroptera > member of family Pentatomidae (stink-beetle)
stinking bug1815
stink-bug1877
stink beetle1889
1889 H. Vaughan-Williams Visit to Lobengula (1947) xxv. 162 I must mention the stink beetles, as they are called. They all emit the most horrible stench when killed or even touched. You get them all over South Africa.
1979 Jrnl. Arid Environments 2 101 When stink-beetles of the genus Eleodes are placed in a bottle.., their fumes will kill other insects placed inside the bottle.
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stink berry n. U.S. the yellow buckthorn.
stink-bird n. the name in Guyana for the hoatzin, Opisthocomus cristatus.
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > [noun] > member of Opisthocomidae (hoatzin)
hoatzin1661
stinking bird1862
stink-bird1869
1869–73 T. R. Jones tr. A. E. Brehm Cassell's Bk. Birds III. 281 The Hoactzin, or Stink Bird.
stink bomb n. a small hand-missile which emits a nauseating smell when broken, typically thrown by schoolboys; also transferred.
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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > toy weapons > [noun]
poop1489
pellet1553
trunk1553
elder-gun1600
popgun1649
spitter1688
pluff1695
whistling arrowa1718
pea-shooter1782
pea gun1812
detonating ball1814
pea-blower1821
pen-gun1821
pipegun1828
torpedo1831
spring gun1837
putty blower1861
tweaker1862
pluffera1866
bean-shooter1890
putty shooter1896
water pistol1897
stink bomb1915
cap-pistol1920
cap-gun1931
laser gun1961
the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > [noun] > one who or that which > specific
filthOE
fimea1475
devil's dunga1576
devil's dirt1578
sweat-pit1708
fetid gum1858
stink bomb1915
stinkweed1932
stink-pot1972
1915 D. O. Barnett Let. 26 June in In Happy Memory 192 It seems that the tobacco stores had amalgamated with a stink-bomb dépôt.
1922 A. Haddon Green Room Gossip iv. 117 At this juncture there was a good deal of sneezing and coughing in the auditorium... Both stink bombs and ‘electric snuff’ were thrown from the gallery.
1958 ‘J. Byrom’ Or be he Dead xiii. 167 He lobbed this [conversational] grenade..as innocently as a child with a stinkbomb.
1974 D. Ramsay No Cause to Kill i. 38 I used to sit in the library wishing I had a stink bomb to set off under her nose.
stink brand n. = stinking smut.
stink-bug n. a shield bug of the family Pentatomidæ, which includes many species that feed on plants and eject a strong-smelling liquid if attacked.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Heteroptera > member of family Pentatomidae (stink-beetle)
stinking bug1815
stink-bug1877
stink beetle1889
1877 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 4) 647 Squash-bug... A small yellow bug, injurious to the vines of squashes, melons, and cucumbers... In Connecticut, called a stink-bug.
1891 Cent. Dict. Stink-bug, any one of several malodorous bugs, particularly the common squash-bug, Anasa tristis, of the Coreidæ.
1902 L. O. Howard Insect Bk. 313 The stink-bugs and their allies. (Family Pentatomidæ.)
stink bush n. (a) a species of star-anise ( Illicium floridanum), a shrub growing in the southern United States ( Funk's Stand. Dict. 1895); (b) Australian the rutaceous tree, Zieria smithii.
stink-cat n. South African the zoril or mariput, Zorilla striata.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Mustelidae (weasel, marten, otter, or badger) > [noun] > genus Ictonyx (zorille)
zoril1774
muishond1796
mouse-hunt1850
stink-cat1899
1899 H. R. Haggard Swallow 50 I have shammed dead like a stink-cat when dogs are about.
stinkfinger n. in coarse slang phr. to play (at) stinkfinger (see quot. 1903) (now rare or obsolete).
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1903 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang VI. ii. 369/1 To play at stinkfinger,..to grope a woman.
1934 H. Miller Tropic of Cancer 282 I had no Odette Champs~divers with whom to play stinkfinger.
stink-fish n.
Brit. /ˈstɪŋkfɪʃ/
, /ˈstɪŋkfɪʃ/U.S. /ˈstɪŋkˌfɪʃ/
, /ˈstɪŋkˌfɪʃ/South African English /ˈstɪŋkfɪʃ/
, /ˈstɪŋkfɪʃ/West African English /ˈstiŋkˌfiʃ/
(a) South African = bamboo-fish n. at bamboo n. Compounds 2; (b) Ghana = stinking fish n. at stinking adj. Compounds 1 (b)./ˈstiŋkˌfiʃ/ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sparidae (sea-breams) > [noun] > sarpa salpa (striped karanteen)
karanteen1905
bamboo-fish1913
stink-fish1913
strepie1913
stripey1964
the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > cured fish > salted or pickled fish
pickle-herring1463
round shore-herring1469
split herring1469
white herring1469
white-salted herring1469
ling fish1489
pickled herring?1577
mudfish1600
old ling1600
sea-stick1604
cor1624
crux-herrings1641
red fish1728
dunfish1746
sea steak1798
caveach1822
fair maid1823
dun codfish1839
crape-fish1856
black herring1883
rollmop1892
schmaltz herring1912
stink-fish1913
stinking fish1935
Spithead pheasant1948
1902 Marine Investigation in S. Afr. I. 116 Bamboesvisch. Stinkvisch. Scarce in Cape Town market, but common in Saldanha Bay.]
1913 W. W. Thompson Sea Fisheries Cape Colony ii. 61 The pretty little bamboo-fish of the Cape is also known as stink-fish, and is the mooi nooitje of Hermanus and Struys Bay, the streepje of the Knysna and the silver karanteen of Natal.
1962 C. G. Baëta Prophetism in Ghana ii. 17 Adherents of the Twelve Apostles Church..are not allowed to eat pork, stink-fish, shark's meat or snails.
stink-fly n. a fly belonging to the genus Chrysopa.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > division Endopterygota or Metabola (winged) > [noun] > order Neuroptera > suborder Planipennia > family Chrysopidae or genus Chyrsopa > member of
goldeneye1681
plant-louse-lion1763
lacewing1831
aphis-lion1870
stink-fly1902
1902 L. O. Howard Insect Bk. 222 Chrysopidæ,..sometimes..called stink flies.
stink gland n. a gland in certain animals producing a fetid secretion.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > substance or secretion and excretion > [noun] > scent-gland > producing fetid secretion
stink gland1889
1889 F. G. Heathcote in Philos. Trans. 1888 (Royal Soc.) B. 179 164 These organs..are the first pair of stink glands.
stink grass n. an ill-scented grass, Eragrostis major.
stink pheasant n. = stink-bird n.
stink quartz n. a variety of quartz, which emits a fetid odour when struck.
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stink-rat n. U.S. = stink-pot n. 4 ( Cent. Dict.).
stink-shad n. the mud-shad, Dorosoma cepedianum.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > order Clupeiformes > [noun] > family Clupeidae and herrings > doromosa cepedianum (hickory shad)
hickory shada1816
shad-herring1845
mud shad1876
gizzard shad1884
stink-shad1884
white-eyed shad1884
winter shad1884
thread-herring1888
1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 610 In the Chesapeake region it is known as the ‘Mud-Shad’, ‘Winter Shad’, or ‘Stink Shad’.
stink-trap n. = stench-trap n. at stench n. Compounds 2.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > provision of sewers > [noun] > sewer > trap
stink-trap1782
gas trap1818
stench-trap1833
trap1833
smell-trap1851
bottle trap1876
trapping1890
reflux trap1892
1782 Brit. Patent 1330 (1856) 2 This machine or stink trap is let into lead or any other sort of pipes.
1873 H. Spencer Study Sociol. (ed. 6) iii. 67 Infecting gases that are kept out only so long as stink-traps are in good order.
1906 Hasluck's Sanitary Conveniences & Drainage xv. 151 A ‘trap’, or ‘stink-trap’, as it was formerly called, is [etc.].
stink-tree n. (a) some tree native in Sri Lanka, having a disgusting odour; (b) dialect the name in the Isle of Wight for the guelder rose.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > viburnums or guelder rose and allies > [noun]
bendwithc1440
opier1548
opulus1548
ople1551
dwarf plane tree1578
water elder1578
whitten1578
guelder rose1597
rose elder1597
wayfaring man's tree1597
wayfaring tree1597
opiet1601
cotton tree1633
viorne1637
mealy tree1640
laurustinus1664
stinking tree1681
black haw1688
laurel-thyme1693
laurustine1693
viburnum1731
wayfaring shrub1731
May rose1753
pembina1760
snowball tree1760
mealtree1785
stink-tree1795
cherry-wood1821
snowball1828
sloe1846
withe-rod1846
lithy-tree1866
nannyberry1867
king's crown1879
stag bush1884
snowball bush1931
the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Asian trees or shrubs > [noun] > other Asian trees or shrubs
China-pea1660
pea tree1766
koelreuteria1789
stink-tree1795
ume1822
Java almond1824
weenonga1838
St. Thomas' tree1866
golden shower1882
Jew's mallow1884
mokihana1888
1795 C. R. Hopson tr. C. P. Thunberg Trav. IV. 234 The stink-tree was called by the Dutch Strunt-hout,..on account of its disgusting odour, which resides especially in the thick stem and the larger branches.
1849 W. A. Bromfield in Phytologist 3 421 Viburnum Opulus..is sometimes called stink-tree in this island [Isle of Wight].
stink-turtle n. = stink-pot n. 4.
stinkwort n. Australian a plant of the genus Scrophularia.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Scrophulariaceae (figwort and allies) > [noun] > figwort and allies
brownwortc1000
scrophularyc1400
water betonyc1400
bishop-leaves1597
fig-wort1597
kernel-wort1597
pilewort1640
scrophularia1663
water figwort1670
rose noble1808
snake's head1834
salpiglossid1846
salt-rheum weed1846
Cornish money-wort1848
turtle-head1857
scrophulariad1866
fiddlewood1878–86
stinking Christopher1878
stinkwort1890
1890 Kapunda Herald 25 July 2/5 The following letter was received from Mr. J. McDougall..regarding a sample of stinkwort sent to him:—‘This sample has been duly examined, and I am satisfied that it is useless as a raw material from which to make paper stock’.
1897 Westm. Gaz. 23 July 8/1 The Bill which has just been introduced into the New South Wales Parliament for the destruction of noxious weeds..has a scheduled list of weeds, including thistle, stinkwort, and several others.
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stinkv.
/stɪŋk/, U.S. /stɪŋk/ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > [verb (intransitive)]
stinkc725
steamOE
smellc1175
smakec1315
savoura1400
taragec1407
flavourc1425
scentc1460
breathea1500
smell1526
the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > stink [verb (intransitive)]
stinkc725
stenchc950
to-stinka1382
smella1400
savour?1440
stew1563
reek1609
funk1694
pen-and-ink1892
whiff1899
niff1900
hum1902
pong1906
honk1959
the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > corruption > [verb (intransitive)] > exhibit or savour of moral or artistic decay
stinkc725
c725 Corpus Gloss. 895 Flagrans, stincendi.
c1000 Ælfric Gram. (Z.) xxxvii. 220 Ic stince swote.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 8194 To strawwenn gode gresess þær Þatt stunnkenn swiþe swete.
2. proverbial.c1386 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Prol. & Tale 515 As witnessen thise olde wyse; And that ful soone I wol it verifie In this Chanon.1539 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Prouerbes sig. D.iijv Profered ware stynketh. Seruice yt is wyllyngly offered is for most parte to be suspected.† c. to stink out: to go out with a stink. Obsolete.† d. transitive. To smell offensively of. Obsolete.1936 Metronome Feb. 61/2 Stinks, what one pub thinks of another's tunes.1940 ‘N. Blake’ Malice in Wonderland i. v. 61 Big Business does rather stink, doesn't it?1959 H. Hobson Mission House Murder iii. 21 Rock an' Roll came in..now that's out—that stinks too.1963 C. D. Simak They walked like Men ix. 53 ‘How did you know that?’ ‘Just a guess,’ I said. ‘This whole thing stinks to heaven.’1973 Times 23 May 16/4 The affairs of Lonrho stunk to high heaven.1979 R. Jaffe Class Reunion (1980) ii. ii. 196 Chris would make it be like the old days. But the old days had stunk too.
a. To emit a strong offensive smell; to smell foully. (In early examples, a contextual use of sense 1) Const. of.Now implying violent disgust on the part of the speaker; in ordinary polite use avoided as unpleasantly forcible.
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c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 236 Eal se lichoma stincð fule.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 4781 & all he toc forrþrihht anan To rotenn. & to stinnkenn.
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 37 Dis oref..stincð fule for his golnesse.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 242 Lazre..þe stong selonge he hefde ilein iþe eorðe.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) ii. 5 Þai trowed þat Cristez body schuld hafe stynked.
c1450 Mirk's Festial 84 How his brethe stinkyth.
1533 J. Heywood Mery Play Iohan Iohan sig. A.i I wolde bete her..that she shall stynke.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Exod. viii. 14 The land stanke of them.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. A5v A floud of poyson..Which stunck so vildly, that it forst him slacke, His grasping hold.
a1631 J. Donne Poems (1633) 48 Waters stincke soone, if in one place they bide.
1718 M. Prior Alma i, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 321 Cou'd Alma else with Judgment tell, When Cabbage stinks, or Roses smell?
1769 G. White Let. 30 Aug. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 72 I wish I had not forgot to mention the faculty that snakes have of stinking se defendendo.
1820 P. B. Shelley Sensitive Plant in Prometheus Unbound 169 The dock, and henbane, and hemlock dank,..stifled the air till the dead wind stank.
1889 J. K. Jerome Three Men in Boat iv The High Street stunk of oil.
1899 M. H. Kingsley W. Afr. Stud. i. 3 I myself saw certainly not less than 70 crocodiles at one time, let alone smelling them, for they do swarm in places and stink always.
b. figurative. To be offensive; to be abhorrent; to savour offensively of something. Phrases, to stink in (a person's) nostrils; also (slang), to stink of (or with) money: to be ‘offensively’ rich.
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the mind > emotion > hatred > object of detestation (person or thing) > become loathsome [verb (intransitive)]
aloatheOE
stink?c1225
repugn1831
the mind > emotion > hatred > loathing or detestation > loathe or abhor [verb (intransitive)] > be loathsome or abhorrent
loathec893
stink?c1225
the mind > possession > wealth > be rich [verb (intransitive)] > be very rich
wallowa1400
to roll in ——1573
to stink of (or with) money1877
roll1883
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 110 Ach þulli sacrefise stinkeð to ure lauerd.
1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 8312 Þese twey cytees, boþe þey sank, For þey hadde ioye at synne þat stank.
c1450 Mirk's Festial 68 For oure forme synne stanke soo yn Godys nase, þat [etc.].
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Prov. x. A The name of the vngodly shal stynke.
1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xix. 160 He makes our profession as it were to stincke afore the face of the gods. View more context for this quotation
1612 Mr. King tr. Benvenuto Passenger i. ii. 141 A false wicked tongue stinkes of an hereticall conscience, but what then?
1674 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) II. 359 To make me stincke in the nostrills of my ould associates.
1867 Goldw. Smith in Brodrick Ess. Reform 230 Reputed renegades, whose names stank in the nostrils of the party which they had left.
1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. 239/2 A very proud man is said to ‘stink wi' pride’, a very rich one to ‘stink o' brass’.
1886 R. L. Stevenson Strange Case Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde 7 We told the man we could..make such a scandal out of this, as should make his name stink from one end of London to the other.
1919 E. Jones in Jrnl. Abnormal Psychol. 13 273 We speak of a ‘dirty or filthy miser’, of a man ‘rolling’ or ‘wallowing’ in money, or of a man ‘stinking of money’.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses i. i. [Telemachus] 7 Touch him for a guinea. He's stinking with money.
1932 I. Brown Marine Parade xii. 152 We must do our best. He stinks of money. Will you fix up about rooms and for God's sake let's have a decent dinner.
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > stink [verb (intransitive)] > expire or cease with stink
to stink outa1637
the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > become dark [verb (intransitive)] > go out or be extinguished > in specific way
to stink outa1637
splutter1906
a1637 B. Jonson Under-woods xliii. 188 in Wks. (1640) III Or in the Bell-Mans Lanthorne like a spie, Burne to a snuffe, and then stinke out, and die.
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > stink of [verb (transitive)]
stink?c1225
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 69 Þus þe false sikeleres..wrið hare fulðe þet heo hit ne maȝe stinken... for ȝef ha hit stunken ham walde wlatie þer wið.
e. To exhibit or savour of moral (artistic, etc.) decay. Of persons: also, to be despicable or completely incompetent. Of actions, phenomena, etc.: also spec. in to stink to (high) heaven. colloquial.
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society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degenerate [verb (intransitive)] > become corrupt
rot?c1225
pervertc1475
putrefya1500
corrupt1598
gangrene1618
deprave1655
stink1934
1934 J. T. Farrell Young Manhood Studs Lonigan viii. 121 I watched you guys go through signal practice. You stunk!
1956 H. Kurnitz Invasion of Privacy xv. 99 She regarded Zorn bleakly. ‘You stink, Michael Zorn,’ she said.
1963 ‘D. Cory’ Hammerhead iv. 61 Sofia was the actress of the family. I stink.
3. quasi-transitive with complement. to stink to death, to kill by emitting a bad smell. Chiefly hyperbolical.
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > stink of [verb (transitive)] > afflict with stench
astenchc1225
bestench1568
bestink1611
to stink to death1625
outstink1655
stench1824
1625 T. Middleton Game at Chæss v. iii Hee would hazard to be stunk [v.rr. stung, strucke] to death.
1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France I. 173 Chicken-coops, which stink one to death.
1835 R. Browning Paracelsus iii. 93 Such a suffumigation as, once fired, Had stunk the patient dead ere he could groan.
4. transitive. To fill (an animal's earth) with suffocating fumes. Also, to drive (animals or persons) out of a place by stench or suffocating fumes.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunt [verb (transitive)] > drive from lair or cover > by smell
stink1781
1781 P. Beckford Thoughts on Hunting xxiii. 311 In open countries foxes, when they are much disturbed, will lie at earth. If you have difficulty in finding, stinking the earths will sometimes produce them again.
1781 P. Beckford Thoughts on Hunting xxiii. 311 Badgers… They may be caught by stinking them out of a great earth.
1860 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth (1896) xliii. 125 Then with his own hands he let down by a rope a bag of burning sulphur and pitch, and stunk them out.
1880 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 7 Aug. 207/2 Treatment..to stink the [Guinea] worm out.
5.
a. To cause to stink.
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > stink of [verb (transitive)] > cause to stink
stinka1300
stench1577
smell1887
a1300 Satire on Monks & People of Kildare xiv, in F. J. Furnivall Early Eng. Poems (1862) 155 Daþeit ȝur curteisie, ȝe stinkeþ al þe strete.
1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 294 If its Leaf or Seed is rubbed, it will stink the Hands for four or five Hours.
1896 F. A. Steel On Face of Waters i. vi. 63 One dead fish stinks a whole tank.
b. With up. To cause (a place) to stink. Also figurative. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.).
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1956 ‘B. Holiday’ & W. Dufty Lady sings Blues vii. 76 The manager got panicky and began to holler at me that I was stinking up his Grand Terrace.
1967 C. Drummond Death at Furlong Post xi. 140 Harassed fat women cooking sauerbraten and stinking up the place with the smell of vinegar.
1977 D. MacKenzie Raven & Ratcatcher iii. 44 A rumour..that..I was allowed to resign rather than stink-up the fair name of the Serious Crimes Squad.
1979 R. Jaffe Class Reunion (1980) iii. iii. 319 He was sweet even though he did stink up her bedroom because he always forgot to open the window.
Compounds
stink-alive n. the bib or pout, Gadus luscus.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Gadiformes (cod) > [noun] > family Gadidae > genus Gadus > gadus luscus (pout)
poutOE
pouting1591
bib1674
whiting pout1686
bull-pout1823
pouter1860
stink-alive1863
miller's thumb1880
1863 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) III. 306 The Pout is graphically termed by the fishermen the Stinkalive, because it becomes putrid so soon after death.
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