Definitions for stink

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Spelling: [stingk]

IPA: /stɪŋk/

Stink 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 stink (iknst).

Definitions for stink

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 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 stink

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 stink

Intellectual shut-ins are a dime a dozen these days, and they all stink just as bad as the next one.

Hilton danced in a corner by herself while her then-boyfriend, shipping heir Stavros Niarchos, gave her the stink eye.

"They shelled this place like stink yesterday," Collinge told me.

Her fiancé is raising a stink bigger than the s*** I took this morning.

I've come through that, an' all the stink of it; I've come through sorrer.

As you get older, the more you think, the more you stink, really.

All that fuss and stink is to get 'em to Gallowstree Dip before we pass it.

Shortly after his confession, Vision Forum Ministries closed up shop, unable to continue with the stink of sex scandal upon them.

If they had anything to do with developing Wicklow they'd make it stink!

How frightful my blemishes, which must stink in His nostrils!