Stinking \Stink"ing\,
a. & n. from Stink, v.
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Stinking badger (Zool.), the teledu.
Stinking cedar (Bot.), the California nutmeg tree; also, a
related tree of Florida ({Torreya taxifolia).
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Stink \Stink\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stunk, Stank, p. pr. &
vb. n. Stinking.] [AS. stinkan to have a smell (whether
good or bad); akin to OHG. stinchan, G. & D. stinken to
stink; of uncertain origin; cf. Icel. st["o]kkva to leap, to
spring, Goth. stigqan to push, strike, or Gr. ? rancid. Cf.
Stench.]
To emit a strong, offensive smell; to send out a disgusting
odor.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
stinking
adj 1: very bad; "a lousy play"; "it's a stinking world" [syn: icky,
crappy, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinky]
2: offensively malodorous; "a putrid smell" [syn: fetid, foetid,
foul, foul-smelling, funky, noisome, smelly, putrid]
WordNet (r) 2.0
138 Moby Thesaurus words for "stinking":
abhorrent, abominable, awful, bad, bad-smelling, barfy, base,
beastly, below contempt, beneath contempt, besotted, bombed, boozy,
brackish, bum, canned, cheesy, cloying, contemptible, crappy,
creepy, crude, crummy, dastardly, despicable, detestable, dirty,
disguised, disgusting, drunk, drunken, execrable, fecal, fetid,
forbidding, foul, frowsty, frowy, frowzy, fulsome, funky, fusty,
gamy, godawful, goshawful, graveolent, grim, gross, hairy, hateful,
heinous, high, icky, ignoble, ill-smelling, in the bag, inebriated,
intoxicated, loaded, loathsome, lousy, low, maggoty, malodorous,
maudlin, mawkish, mean, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, mildewed,
mildewy, moldy, muddled, musty, nasty, nauseant, nauseating,
nauseous, nidorous, noisome, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious,
obscene, odious, odorous, offensive, olid, overripe, pie-eyed,
pissed, pixilated, plastered, poisonous, potted, punk, putrid,
rancid, rank, reasty, reasy, rebarbative, reechy, reeking, reeky,
repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, shitty,
sickening, smashed, smellful, smelling, smelly, sozzled, spoiled,
stenchy, stinky, stoned, strong, stuffy, sulfurous, tanked,
terrible, tipsy, under the influence, under the weather, vile,
villainous, vomity, weevily, woozy, wretched, yecchy, yucky
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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