stankn.1
/staŋk/, U.S. /stæŋk/ 1. A pond or pool. Also a ditch or dyke of slowly-moving water, a moat. Now Scottish and dialect.
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the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun]
pooleOE
seathc950
lakea1000
flosha1300
stanga1300
weira1300
water poolc1325
carrc1330
stamp1338
stank1338
ponda1387
flashc1440
stagnec1470
peel?a1500
sole15..
danka1522
linn1577
sound1581
flake1598
still1681
slew1708
splash1760
watering hole1776
vlei1793
jheel1805
slougha1817
sipe1825
α.
β. a1340 R. Rolle Psalter cxiii. 8 That turnys the stanys in stangis of watirs.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8936 Ilk dai..þar lighted dun of heuen ture Angels..For to stir þe stang bidene.1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope v. x A stange or pond where as was a fayr mylle.a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) iv. sig. Aiii The stang of this forest..in this stange or water the wylde beastes of the foreste dyd euer..drynke.1588 R. Parke tr. J. G. de Mendoza Hist. Kingdome of China 205 They haue their stanges for the most part full of fish.c1595 J. Norden Speculum Brit.: Cornwall (1728) 71 Ther standeth a Stange or Poole of water.in extended use.c1386 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale 841 Seint Iohn seith that Auowtiers shullen been in helle, in a stank brennynge of fyr and of Brymston.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 23191 Sathanas..Sal casten be..In a stinkand stanck [Trin. Cambr. pit] of fire.1338 R. Mannyng Chron. (1725) 68 Þei lighted & abiden biside a water stank [rhyme lang].
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 5922 On stank and burn and well.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 1018 A stynkande stanc.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xix. 209 Bestes, taughte of men to gon in to Watres..and in to depe Stankes, for to take Fysche.
1450 J. Fastolf in Paston Lett. & Papers (2005) III. 108 Ser John Buk..physshed my stankys at Dedham and holp brake my damme.
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 2982 In an Ile he duelt..Whar þan was a grete staunk; Of derwent watir þare is þe hede.
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 208 Ane nobill toun..That wallit wes about with lyme and stone, With dowbill stank and fowsseis mony one.
1603 J. Davies Microcosmos 67 Stanckes, Moores, and Lakes that never ryn.
c1630 in W. Macfarlane Geogr. Coll. Scotl. (1907) II. 165 It is now one little Logh being but ane stunk before when the Illand was in the midst of it.
1689 Memorable Battle Killy Crankie (single sheet) O'er Ditch and Stank, He staik amang them a' then.
1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 165 Thou ance..could hae flown out owre a stank, Like onie bird.
1807 J. Stagg Misc. Poems (new ed.) 3 Wi' whup an' spur, thro' stenk an' stoore, [they] Set off, a jolly party.
1825 T. Carlyle Let. in J. A. Froude T. Carlyle: First Forty Years (1882) I. xvii. 296 If he..is..made to plash and sprawl..through every stank to which their love of provant leads them.
1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb v. 37 I b'lieve ye he'll no loup the stank so easy wi' Maister Saun'ers.
2. A dam to hold back water, a weir or floodgate. Now dialect and technical.
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the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > artificially confined water > contrivance for impounding water
stopping1575
pen1585
stop1585
water stop1585
stank1604
headinga1641
stanch1767
stop-back1790
penhead1805
keep1847
stanking1883
1604 Orig. Jrnls. House of Commons 23 June 3 f. 321v All weres, kiddalls, stanks, and other obstruccions in..navigable ryvars.
1610 Vaughan in J. Davies' Wks. (Grosart) II. 4/1 The Brookes runne murmuring by their parched Brincks..and chide against the Stancks.
1633 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1885) III. Att the stancke or damm of the abovenamed mill.
1656 R. Fletcher Poems in Ex Otio Negotium 167 An inundation that ore-bears the banks And bounds of all religion: If some stancks Shew their emergent heads? Like Seth's fam'd stone Th'are monuments of thy devotion gone!
1763 in J. Lloyd Old S. Wales Iron Wks. (1906) 73 To make such..channels..pondheads, stanks, and wears as they shall think fit.
1855 Gawthrop Fraser's Guide to Liverpool 235 Crossing the stank, or bar, between Seacombe and Woodside.
1865 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2nd Ser. 1 ii. 277 The cutting through one of these subterranean stanks or ridges will often lay a large tract immediately dry.
1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 238 Stank, a water-tight stopping; generally a well built brick wall.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
stank-head n.
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1412–13 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 610 Pro reparacione de le Stankhede apud Ketton, 4s.
stank-side n.
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14.. Prose Life Alexander 71 Þay..went to þe stanke~syde & drewe fisches & elez oute of þe water, & ete þam.
1903 A. Whyte Apostle Paul x. 111 It is then that I sit down at a stank-side with poor Lord Brodie.
C2.
stank-brae n. the edge of a stank.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > bank > [noun] > of lake or pool
lake-side1560
stank-brae1579
poolside1655
1579 in Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 1581, 73/1 The stank bra on the eist syde.
c1680 J. Russell Acct. Murder Abp. Sharp in J. Kirkton Secret & True Hist. Church Scotl. (1817) 443 Presently Clavers advanced all in a body to the stank bree.
stank-hen n. the moorhen, Gallinula chloropus.
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the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > family Rallidae (rail) > genus Gallinula > gallinula chloropus (moor-hen)
moorhena1350
water henc1520
moat-hen1544
moor coot?1606
mud hen1611
marsh hen1709
heath-game1711
stank-hen1766
clapper rail1813
skitty1813
kitty-coot1885
1766 T. Reid Let. in Wks. I. 47/2 A bird called a stankhen. It is a water fowl, less than a duck [etc.].
1831 J. Rennie Montagu's Ornithol. Dict. (ed. 2) 188 Gallinule, Provincial.—Moor-hen... Stank-hen.
stank-meadow n. a meadow containing a pool.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > meadow land > meadow > other meadows
stank-meadowc1358
lot-mead1552
lot-meadow1605
saeter1795
shade1806
rodham1882
c1358 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 561 In diversis foveis et gutturis factis in le Staunkmedowe de Pityngton, 12s. 1d.
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† stankadj.1
Obsolete. rare.
Weary, faint, exhausted.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective]
wearyc825
asadc1306
ateyntc1325
attaintc1325
recrayed1340
methefula1350
for-wearya1375
matea1375
taintc1380
heavy1382
fortireda1400
methefula1400
afoundered?a1425
tewedc1440
travailedc1440
wearisomec1460
fatigate1471
defatigatec1487
tired1488
recreant1490
yolden?1507
fulyeit?a1513
traiked?a1513
tavert1535
wearied1538
fatigated1552
awearya1555
forwearied1562
overtired1567
spenta1568
done1575
awearied1577
stank1579
languishinga1586
bankrupt?1589
fordone1590
spent1591
overwearied1592
overworn1592
outworn1597
half-dead1601
back-broken1603
tiry1611
defatigated1612
dog-wearya1616
overweary1617
exhaust1621
worn-out1639
embossed1651
outspent1652
exhausted1667
beaten1681
bejaded1687
harassed1693
jaded1693
lassate1694
defeata1732
beat out1758
fagged1764
dog-tired1770
fessive1773
done-up1784
forjeskit1786
ramfeezled1786
done-over1789
fatigued1791
forfoughten1794
worn-up1812
dead1813
out-burnta1821
prostrate1820
dead beat1822
told out1822
bone-tireda1825
traiky1825
overfatigued1834
outwearied1837
done like (a) dinner1838
magged1839
used up1839
tuckered outc1840
drained1855
floored1857
weariful1862
wappered1868
bushed1870
bezzled1875
dead-beaten1875
down1885
tucked up1891
ready (or fit) to drop1892
buggered-up1893
ground-down1897
played1897
veal-bled1899
stove-up1901
trachled1910
ragged1912
beat up1914
done in1917
whacked1919
washy1922
pooped1928
shattered1930
punchy1932
shagged1932
shot1939
whipped1940
buggered1942
flaked (out)1942
fucked1949
sold-out1958
wiped1958
burnt out1959
wrung out1962
juiced1965
hanging1971
zonked1972
maxed1978
raddled1978
zoned1980
cream crackered1983
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Sept. 47 I am so stiffe, and so stanck [gloss. wearie or fainte].
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Stanco, wearie, tyred, faint, ouerlaboured, stanke.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
stankadj.2n.2
/staŋk/, U.S. /stæŋk/ U.S. slang (originally and chiefly in African-American usage).
A. adj.2
1. Having a strong (usually unpleasant) smell, stinking; dirty. Cf. stanky adj. 1a.
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1980 E. A. Folb Runnin' down some Lines 255 Reasons given for not performing oral sex... ‘I don't eat none dat tuna. It stank! Ooowhee!’
1999 G. Phillips Jook xvii. 217 I wasn't stupid enough to leave several million lying around like stank laundry.
2002 J. J. Murray Something Real iii. 34 The stankest thing you've ever smelled.
2005 ‘Noire’ Candy Licker xii. 118 His big wet mouth drooling stank spit.
2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 24 Oct. c22/1 You can't get close to me, man, you stank and musty!
2. Of a person, or his or her appearance, behaviour, etc.: unpleasant, disgusting, offensive. Also (chiefly of a woman): sexually promiscuous. Cf. stanky adj. 1b.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > [adjective] > unpleasant
loatha700
unsweetc890
grimlyc893
unquemeOE
un-i-quemeOE
evila1131
sourc1175
illc1220
unhightlyc1275
unwelcomec1325
unblithec1330
unnetc1330
unrekena1350
unagreeablec1374
uncouthc1380
unsavouryc1380
displeasantc1386
unlikinga1398
ungaina1400
crabbedc1400
unlovelyc1400
displeasing1401
eschewc1420
unsoot1420
mislikinga1425
unlikelya1425
unlustya1425
fastidiousc1425
unpleasantc1430
displicable1471
unthankfulc1475
displeasant1481
uneasy1483
unpleasinga1500
unfaring1513
badc1530
malpleasant?1533
noisome1542
thanklessa1547
ungrate1548
untoothsome1548
ungreeable1550
contrary1561
disagreeable1570
offensible1575
offensive1576
naughty1578
delightlessa1586
undelightful1585
unwisheda1586
unpleasurable1587
undelightsomec1595
dislikeful1596
disliking1596
ungrateful1596
unsweet?a1600
distastive1600
impleasing1602
distasting1603
distasteful1607
unsightly1608
undelectable1610
disgustful1611
unrelishing1611
waspisha1616
undeliciousa1618
unwished-for1617
disrelishing1631
unenjoyed1643
unjoyous1645
mirya1652
unwelcomed1651
unpleasivea1656
sweet1656
injucund1657
insuave1657
unpalatable1658
unhandsome1660
undesirable1667
disrelishablea1670
uncouthsome1684
shocking1703
nasty1705
embittering1746
indelectable1751
undelightinga1774
nice and ——1796
unenjoyablea1797
ungenial1796
uncomplacent1805
ungracious1807
bitter1810
rotten1813
uncongenial1813
quarrelsome1825
grimy1833
nice1836
unrelished1863
bloody1867
unbewitching1876
ferocious1877
displeasurable1879
rebarbative1892
charming1893
crook1898
naar1900
peppery1901
negative1902
poisonous1906
off-putting1935
unsympathetic1937
piggy1942
funky1946
umpty1948
pooey1967
minging1970
Scrooge-like1976
sucky1984
stank1991
stanky1991
1991 Mich. Citizen 17 Aug. 16 Graphic lyrics about beating, raping and murdering women, who group members feel fit only into one of two categories,—bitches and ‘stank ho's’.
1994 Vibe Aug. 60/2 I have a really obnoxious nature.., I can get stank sometimes, all attitude and just being forward with it.
2003 M. Kalam Night Journey (2004) 82 You dealing with a common ho. A hooch, a stank bitch!
2008 P. C. Cast Warrior Rising 172 ‘I'm not grumpy, I'm—..Sore.’ ‘No, what you are is stank.’
2014 R. R. Russell Tales from not-so-glam TV Star 273 Sorry, but I was so sick of her stank attitude!
B. n.2
1. coarse slang. The vagina; (also) sexual intercourse with a woman.
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the world > life > the body > sex organs > female sex organs > [noun] > vagina
quaintc1330
quivera1382
tailc1390
mousetrapc1500
cunnigar1550
placket1595
buttonhole1600
bumble broth1602
touch-hole1602
case1606
keyhole1607
vagina1612
nicka1625
nunquam satis1633
lock1640
twat1656
cockpit1658
Whitechapel portion?1695
tuzzy-muzzy1710
niche1749
can1772
bumbo1774
fuckhole1893
jelly roll1895
mole-catcher1896
manhole1916
vag1967
stank1980
pum-pum1983
punani1987
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse > specifically with a woman
womenOE
wivingc1300
leap1607
tillage1609
cuntc1664
rogering1788
cock1895
rooting1922
trim1955
coozea1968
stank1980
coochie1986
1980 E. A. Folb Runnin' down some Lines 255 Stank, vagina.
1985 O. Hawkins Busting out of Ordinary Man 152 It's gonna be interracial, which means it'll offer a few token liberal white chicks to give up some stank.
2000 Advance Titan (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) 19 Apr. 6/2 You gonna give the chew dogg some dat nasty stank?
2000 P. Beatty Tuff xxii. 242 This morning when I was eating your stank-stank.
2012 B. F. Walker Black Boy White School ii. 23 He..grabbed the abandoned earring... ‘Here... Give it back and she might give you some stank.’
2. A strong (usually unpleasant) smell; a stink.
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > [noun] > fetid smells
stenchc893
reekeOE
weffea1300
stink1382
fise14..
smeek?c1425
fist1440
fetorc1450
stew1487
moisture1542
putor1565
pouant1602
funk1606
graveolence1623
hogo1654
whiff1668
fogo1794
stythe1823
malodour1825
pen and ink1859
body scent1875
pong1900
niffa1903
hum1906
taint1927
honk1953
bowf1985
stank1996
1996 Re: Morons in the gym in misc.fitness.weights (Usenet newsgroup) 16 Oct. There's a guy we had to tell to go buy some new clothes..if he passed you the stank stayed for minutes.
1999 Village Voice 7 Dec. 131/1 (headline) The roar of the greasepaint, the stank of the crowd.
2002 Electronic Gaming Monthly Feb. 102 (caption) We're all over this..like stank on poo.
2011 R. Proctor Golden Holocaust iv. xxv. 494 Manufacturers add flavorants to cigarettes..to..‘cool’ the smoke.., or just to mask the nasty stank of nicotine.
3. figurative. Force or intensity of expression or action; aggression. Also in popular music (esp. funk): unrestrained energy, passion, and confidence in style or performance; verve, drive (cf. stanky adj. 2).
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun]
greennesseOE
lustinessc1325
forcea1375
vigourc1386
virrc1575
vigour1602
nerve1605
vivacity1649
vis1650
actuosity1660
amenity1661
vogue1674
energy1783
smeddum1790
dash1796
throughput1808
feck1811
go1825
steam1826
jism1842
vim1843
animalism1848
fizz1856
jasm1860
verve1863
snap1865
sawdusta1873
élan1880
stingo1885
energeticism1891
sprawl1894
zip1899
pep1908
jazz1912
zoom1926
toe1963
zap1968
stank1997
1997 C. Rock Rock This! ii. 47 Everybody called me nigger. The guys would put a lot of stank in it, like ‘Ya fuckin' nigger.’
2000 N.Y. Times 1 Sept. e/3 A traditional solo version of..‘Good Night, Irene’..[is] interrupted by Mr. Porter, who asks if he might funk it up a bit. ‘Put a stank on it’.
2003 D. E. Talbert Baggage Claim (2005) 202 ‘I'm Quinton's guest,’ I said, adding a smidgen of stank to the word ‘guest’.
2011 Mixmag Oct. 77/1 Osiris..boasted two bass players for extra stank.
2014 J. Nelms Last Time I Died lxxviii. 233 I swing my hand and this time I put some stank on it. It lands squarely on his temple and he staggers back.
Compounds
stank-ass adj. extremely stank (in various senses); cf. ass n.2 4.
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1998 Oneworld 4 No. 1 75/1 I don't go around spreadin' my love to all dem stank-ass bitches.
2004 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 18 Aug. v. 22 Nothing is worse than stank-ass coffee breath, and it's even worse if you smoke, too.
2012 L. Hayes First Male iii. 40 Fuck these stank-ass, rude-ass customers.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
stankv.
/staŋk/, U.S. /stæŋk/ dialect and technical.
trans.† b. To surround with a moat. Obsolete.
a. To dam or strengthen the banks of a stream. Also to stank back, to stank up (water).
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society > occupation and work > industry > earth-moving, etc. > [verb (transitive)] > embank > strengthen (bank)
wharf1569
to stank back1656
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > structures protecting from water or flooding > [verb (transitive)] > provide with levees or embankments
to stank back1656
levee1832
1656 R. Fletcher Poems in Ex Otio Negotium 154 I'le..stanck up the salt Conducts of mine eyes To watch thy shame, and weep mine obsequies.
1829 in C. R. Ashbee Last Rec. Cotswold Community (1904) 6 Jno. Steel stanking the water and mounding in meadow. 0. 1. 6.
1839 G. C. Lewis Gloss. Words Herefordshire 100 A man shutting down a floodgate would stank back the water.
1881 J. E. Cussans Cashio in Hist. Hertfordshire III. 321 Water-courses are stanked where they take a sharp turn.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > moat > surround with moat [verb (transitive)]
moatc1440
stankc1650
c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1851) II. 469 Schir Williame Forbes..plantis sum soldiouris thairin, being stankit about and of good defenss.
Derivatives
ˈstanking n. = stank n.1 2.
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the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > artificially confined water > contrivance for impounding water
stopping1575
pen1585
stop1585
water stop1585
stank1604
headinga1641
stanch1767
stop-back1790
penhead1805
keep1847
stanking1883
1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 238 Stanking.
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adj.11579
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