Stinky

//ˈstɪŋki// adj, name, noun, slang

adj, name, noun, slang ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A bowel movement; feces or diarrhoea childish
Adjective
  1. 1
    Having a strong, unpleasant smell; stinking.

    "What is that stinky smell?"

  2. 2
    Bad, undesirable. informal

    "1991, Theresa P. Gladden, Romancing Susan, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 37, […] she walked over to the table and switched off the Walkman as she sat down. “Hey!” Nikki yelped. “That was a stinky thing to do. That was my favorite song.”"

Adjective
  1. 1
    having an unpleasant smell wordnet
  2. 2
    very bad wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A village in Kramatorsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
  2. 2
    A village in Poltava Raion, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine.

Synonyms

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Example

More examples

"The cellar is ugly, dark, and stinky."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English stinky, stynky, equivalent to stink + -y. Compare Dutch stinkig (“stinky, foul, rotten”), German stinkig (“stinky”), Hunsrik stinkich.

Etymology 2

Transliteration of Ukrainian Стінки (Stinky). Related to Ukrainian сті́нка (stínka, “wall, side”)

Related phrases

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