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English
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
Verb
stink (third-person singular simple present stinks, present participle stinking, simple past stank or stunk, past participle stunk)
- (intransitive) To have a strong bad smell.
- (intransitive, stative, informal) To be greatly inferior; to perform badly.
That movie stinks. I didn't even stay for the end.
2003, Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 19:My French stinks, Langdon thought, but my zodiac iconography is pretty good. Taurus was always the bull. Astrology was a symbolic constant all over the world.
2008 January–February, “70 Ways to Improve Every Day of the Week”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 135:Improve your golf swing by taking your mate to the driving range. If you're good, you can show off and give her some tips. If you stink, play it for laughs.
- (intransitive) To give an impression of dishonesty, untruth, or sin.
Something stinks about the politician's excuses.
1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:The parish stank of idolatry, abominable rites were practiced in secret, and in all the bounds there was no one had a more evil name for the black traffic than one Alison Sempill, who bode at the Skerburnfoot.
- (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
Derived terms
Translations
have a strong bad smell
- Arabic: نَتُنَ (natuna), نَتِنَ (natina)
- Aromanian: mput, amput, mputsãscu
- Belarusian: смярдзе́ць impf (smjardzjécʹ)
- Bulgarian: смърдя́ (bg) impf (smǎrdjá), воня (bg) (vonja)
- Burmese: နံ (my) (nam)
- Catalan: pudir (ca)
- Chickasaw: kosoma, shoha
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 發臭/发臭 (zh) (fāchòu), 發臭味/发臭味 (fā chòuwèi), 發惡臭/发恶臭 (fā èchòu)
- Crimean Tatar: sasımaq
- Czech: páchnout (cs) impf, smrdět (cs) impf, zapáchat impf
- Danish: stinke
- Dutch: stinken (nl)
- Esperanto: malbonodori
- Finnish: haista (fi)
- French: puer (fr), empester (fr)
- Galician: feder (gl), abafar (gl), cheirar (gl), alcatrear (gl), fedechar, gafar (gl), imbrar (gl)
- Georgian: ყარს (q̇ars)
- German: stinken (de), riechen (de), müffeln (de)
- Greek: βρομάω (el) (vromáo), μυρίζω (el) (myrízo)
- Ancient: ὄζω (ózō), βρωμέω (brōméō)
- Hawaiian: hauna
- Hebrew: הִסְרִיחַ
- Hungarian: bűzlik (hu), büdös (hu)
- Hunsrik: stinke
- Icelandic: þefja
- Ingrian: lemissä haissa
- Italian: puzzare (it)
- Japanese: 臭う (ja) (におう, niou), 悪臭を放つ (あくしゅうをはなつ, akushū o hanatsu)
- Kazakh: сасу (sasu)
- Khmer: ស្អុយ (km) (sʼoy)
- Korean: 악취를 풍기다 (akchwireul punggida)
- Lao: ເຫມັນ (men), ເໝັນ (men)
- Latin: foeteō
- Latvian: smirdēt (lv)
- Lithuanian: smirdėti
- Lushootseed: ʔihəl
- Macedonian: смрди impf (smrdi)
- Malay: busuk (ms)
- Malayalam: നാറുക (ml) (nāṟuka) (offensive), ദുർഗന്ധം വമിക്കുക (duṟgandhaṁ vamikkuka)
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Neapolitan: fete
- Occitan: pudir (oc)
- Ojibwe: (animate, "he/she/it stinks") maazhimaagozi, (inanimate, "it stinks"), maazhimaagwad
- Polish: śmierdzieć (pl) impf, cuchnąć (pl) impf, trącić (pl) impf, capić (pl) impf (coll.), walić (pl) impf (coll.), jebać (pl) impf (vulg.), jechać (pl) impf
- Portuguese: feder (pt), tresandar
- Quechua: hunyay, asnay, asnai, asyai
- Romanian: puți (ro)
- Russian: воня́ть (ru) impf (vonjátʹ), смерде́ть (ru) impf (smerdétʹ), ду́рно па́хнуть impf (dúrno páxnutʹ)
- Sanskrit: पूयति (pūyati)
- Scots: ming
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: смрдити impf
- Roman: smrditi (sh) impf
- Sicilian: fetiri (scn)
- Slovak: smrdieť impf, páchnuť impf
- Slovene: smrdeti (sl) impf
- Spanish: heder (es), apestar (es), cantar (es) (colloquial), oler mal
- Sranan Tongo: tingi
- Swahili: nuka (sw)
- Swedish: stinka (sv)
- Telugu: దుర్గంధము (te) (durgandhamu)
- Thai: เหม็น (th) (měn)
- Ukrainian: смерді́ти impf (smerdíty)
- Vietnamese: bốc mùi thối, bay mùi thối, thối (vi)
- Volapük: lusmelön
- Welsh: drewi (cy)
- White Hmong: tsw phem
- Yiddish: שטינקען (shtinken)
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give an impression of dishonesty or untruth
Translations to be checked
Noun
stink (plural stinks)
- A strong bad smell.
- (informal) A complaint or objection.
- If you don't make a stink about the problem, nothing will be done.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
strong bad smell
- Aromanian: putoari f
- Basque: kirats (eu)
- Bulgarian: воня (bg) f (vonja)
- Catalan: pudor (ca) f
- Crimean Tatar: sasıq
- Czech: smrad (cs) m
- Dutch: stank (nl) m
- Finnish: löyhkä (fi), haju (fi)
- French: puanteur (fr) f
- Galician: fedor (gl) m, tufo m
- German: Gestank (de) m
- Greek: μπόχα (el) f (bócha)
- Ancient: βρῶμος m (brômos), δυσωδία f (dusōdía), δυσοσμία f (dusosmía)
- Hungarian: bűz (hu)
- Italian: puzza (it) f, fetore (it) m
- Japanese: 悪臭 (ja) (akushū)
- Kazakh: сасық (sasyq)
- Latin: paedor m, foetor m
- Lithuanian: smarvė f
- Malayalam: ദുർഗന്ധം (ml) (duṟgandhaṁ), നാറ്റം (ml) (nāṟṟaṁ)
- Maori: hīrearea (of a dead body)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: stank m
- Nynorsk: stank m
- Plautdietsch: Jestank n
- Polish: smród (pl) m, odór (pl) m
- Portuguese: fedor (pt) m, fetidez f
- Romanian: putoare (ro) f
- Russian: вонь (ru) f (vonʹ)
- Sicilian: fetu (scn)
- Spanish: tufo (es) m, hedor (es) m, peste (es) f, hediondez (es) f
- Swedish: stank (sv)
- Telugu: కంపు (te) (kampu)
- Volapük: lusmel
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Translations to be checked
Adjective
stink (comparative more stink, superlative most stink)
- (slang, New Zealand) Bad; inferior; worthless.
- The concert was stink. / That was a stink concert.
- (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,
- 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
- ^ Lise Winer (editor), Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago: On Historical Principles, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008, p. 854
Anagrams
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)
- to stink
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
stink
- inflection of stinken:
- first-person singular present indicative
- imperative
Anagrams
Middle English
Noun
stink
- Alternative form of stynk
Swedish
Verb
stink
- imperative of stinka