stinking

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɪŋkɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋkɪŋ

Etymology 1

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”).

Adjective

stinking (comparative more stinking, superlative most stinking)

1. Having a pungent smell.
2. Very bad and undesirable.

   I have a stinking cold.

3. (slang) Very drunk.
   • 2021, Mack Morriss, South Pacific Diary, 1942-1943:

     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.

4. (euphemistic) An intensifier, a hypallage.

   We don’t need your stinking sympathy.

   • 2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “Kinksters and kinksterettes—Who are these people, anyway?” (chapter 1), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, page 27:

     “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!”

Derived terms

• butt-stinking
• cry stinking fish
• stinking acacia
• stinking ash
• stinking badger
• stinking bean trefoil
• 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

Translations

having a bad smell — see also stinky

• Bashkir: һаҫыҡ (haśıq)
• Bulgarian: вонящ (bg) (vonjašt), смрадлив (bg) (smradliv)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 臭的

• Czech: smradlavý (cs)
• Dagbani: baɣibaɣi
• Dutch: stinkt (nl)
• German: stinkig
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: δυσώδης (dusṓdēs), κάκοσμος (kákosmos)

• Italian: puzzolente (it), puzzoso, fetente (it), fetido (it), maleodorante (it), graveolente
• Latin: foetidus, rancidus
• Latvian: smirdošs m, smirdīgs m
• Macedonian: смрдлив (smrdliv), баздлив (bazdliv)
• Māori: whakapiro
• Portuguese: fedorento (pt), fedido (pt)
• Romanian: împuțit (ro)
• Russian: воню́чий (ru) (vonjúčij), злово́нный (ru) (zlovónnyj), смра́дный (ru) (smrádnyj)
• Scots: mingin
• Spanish: fétido (es)
• Tocharian B: yolo-were
• Ukrainian: смердю́чий (smerdjúčyj), смо́рідний (smóridnyj)
• Volapük: lusmelik

very bad

• Bulgarian: противен (bg) (protiven), отвратителен (bg) (otvratitelen)
• Macedonian: одвратен (odvraten)

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• Woiwurrung: ^{(please verify)} bunkun, ^{(please verify)} warrubak, ^{(please verify)} buang

Verb

stinking

1. present participle and gerund of stink

Etymology 2

From Middle English stinkinge, stynkynge, equivalent to stink +‎ -ing.

Noun

stinking (plural stinkings)

1. The emission of a foul smell.
   • 2013, Phaedra. C Pezzullo, Cultural Studies and Environment, Revisited, page 42:

     From the magnificent ejaculation of the Waimangu geyser, to the tiniest of gaseous emissions, descriptions of the thermal reserve were rife with dischargings, bubblings and stinkings, quiverings and palpitations, orifices and protuberances.

Middle English

Noun

stinking

1. alternative form of stynkynge