Definitions for stank

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Spelling: [stangk]

IPA: /stæŋk/

Stank is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 55 anagrams from letters in stank (aknst).

Definitions for stank

noun

1. a strong offensive smell; stench.
2. Informal. an unpleasant fuss; scandal:
3. stinks, (used with a singular verb) British Slang. chemistry as a course of study.

verb

1. a simple past tense of stink.

Verb phrases

1. stink out, to repel or drive out by means of a highly offensive smell.

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to stink or be otherwise offensive (often followed by up):

verb (used without object)

1. to emit a strong offensive smell.
2. to be offensive to honesty or propriety; to be in extremely bad repute or disfavor.
3. Informal. to be disgustingly inferior:
4. Slang. to have a large quantity of something (usually followed by of or with):

Origin of stank

before 900; (v.) Middle English stinken, Old English stincan; (noun) Middle English, derivative of the v.; cognate with German stinken. (v.); cf. stench

Examples for stank

Nowhere at any time has there been a metropolis that so stank to heaven.

The hold steamed like an oven, stank most offensively, and groaned with anguish.

That they stank so abominably they overcame whole armies just with their smell.

This is why the name Corresponding Society stank in the nostrils of all rulers.

They had simple wit and no fashion sense, and they often stank of cheap beer and cheaper cologne.

I did, and I stank so of turpentine I was quite ashamed to lie with myself.

They were come at last to grip with facts that stank and bit and gripped.

She started from the slaughter-houses, which stank of blood.

This bracketing of Hildas injury with hers stank in Katherines nostrils.

The thing died at last, and the stench of it stank to the sky.