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All 5 letters words made out of stink

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Definitions and meaning of stink

stink

Etymology

From Middle English stinken, from Old English stincan, from Proto-Germanic *stinkwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *stengʷ-, *stegʷ- (“to push, thrust, strike”). Cognate with West Frisian stjonke (“to stink”), Dutch stinken (“to stink”), German stinken (“to stink”), Danish stinke (“to stink”), Swedish stinka (“to stink”), Icelandic stökkva (“to spring, leap, jump”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: stĭngk, IPA^(key): /stɪŋk/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋk

Verb

stink (third-person singular simple present stinks, present participle stinking, simple past stank or stunk, past participle stunk)

1. (intransitive) To have a strong bad smell.
2. (intransitive, stative, informal) To be greatly inferior; to perform badly.
3. (intransitive) To give an impression of dishonesty, untruth, or sin.
4. (transitive) To cause to stink; to affect by a stink.

Synonyms

• (have a strong bad smell): pong, reek
• (be greatly inferior): suck, blow (both slightly vulgar)
• (give an impression of dishonesty or untruth): be fishy

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Noun

stink (plural stinks)

1. A strong bad smell.
2. (informal) A complaint or objection.

   If you don't make a stink about the problem, nothing will be done.

Synonyms

• (strong bad smell): fetor, odour/odor, pong, reek, smell, stench
• (informal: complaint or objection):
• (slang: chemistry):

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Adjective

stink (comparative more stink, superlative most stink)

1. (slang, New Zealand) Bad; inferior; worthless.

   The concert was stink. / That was a stink concert.

2. (Caribbean, Guyana, Jamaica) Bad-smelling, stinky.
   • 2013, Stabroek News, 19 February 2013, cited by Deborah Jan Osman Backer in a speech delivered in the National Assembly during the Budget Debate, 2013,^[1]

     Everyone is up in arms but it smells stink because it smells of racism…

   • 2016, Kei Miller, Augustown, New York: Pantheon, Chapter 1, p. 5,

     […] what Ma Taffy smells on this early afternoon makes her sit up straight. She smells it high and ripe and stink on the air, like a bright green jackfruit in season being pulled to the rocky ground below.

References

Anagrams

• knits, sinkt, skint, snikt, tinks

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch stinken, from Middle Dutch stinken, from Old Dutch stincan, from Proto-Germanic *stinkwaną.

Verb

stink (present stink, present participle stinkende, past participle gestink)

1. to stink

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stɪŋk/
• Hyphenation: stink
• Rhymes: -ɪŋk

Verb

stink

1. inflection of stinken:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

Anagrams

• snikt

Middle English

Noun

stink

1. Alternative form of stynk

Swedish

Verb

stink

1. imperative of stinka