stinkingn.
/ˈstɪŋkɪŋ/ The action of stink v.; an instance of this.
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > [noun] > action of stinking
stinkingc1330
c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 1177 No man miȝt bi him stand For stinking of his wounde.
a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 136 Þy tethe be not pikynge,..ne stynkynge of brethe on youre souerayne castynge.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 43 The waters dividing the streetes, slowly or not at all moved, are in this City..subject to stinking.
a1822 P. B. Shelley tr. J. W. von Goethe Scenes from Faust in Posthumous Poems (1824) 407 What glimmering, spurting, stinking, burning.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
stinkingadj.
/ˈstɪŋkɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈstɪŋkɪŋ/ a. That stinks; offensively smelling.to cry stinking fish: see cry v. 5b(b).
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c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 86 Him stod stincende steam of ðam muðe.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 8195 To strawwenn gode gresess..Biforenn þatt stinnkennde lic.
1338 R. Mannyng Chron. (1725) 177 Richard was hastif, & ansuerd þat stund, Certes þou lies cheitif, & as a stinkand hund.
a1400 Prymer (1895) 69 Lord, þat reisidist stynkynge lazar fro his graue, graunte hem reste!
1532 Psalter of Jesus ✠✠ j b Thy grace lorde,..defende me fro the stynkynge aungell and the spyryte of pestylence.
1604 King James VI & I Counterblaste to Tobacco sig. B2v The loathsome and hurtfull vse of this stinking Antidote.
1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. iv, in Wks. (1851) V. 348 A fire of stinking herbs is kindled underneath, so as he may..be involved in its smoke.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 601 Large stinking cholesteatomatous cavity in mastoid.
1908 C. Bigg Origins Christianity (1909) xiv. 178 Many other of the captives died in that sunless, stinking dungeon.
b. said of an odour.
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1611 Bible (King James) Ecclus. x. 1 Dead flies cause the oyntment of the Apothecarie to send foorth a stinking sauour. View more context for this quotation
1621 T. Lodge tr. S. Goulart Learned Summary Poeme of Saluste of Bartas i. 261 He yeeldeth a stinking smell.
c. Used as a vague epithet connoting intense disgust and contempt. Now only colloquial.Very common in 14th–17th centuries.
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the mind > goodness and badness > state of being accursed > [adjective] > as everyday imprecation
stinking?c1225
misbegetc1325
banned1340
cursefula1382
wariablea1382
cursedc1386
biccheda1400
maledighta1400
vilea1400
accursedc1400
whoresona1450
remauldit?1473
execrable1490
infamous1490
unbicheda1500
jolly1534
bloodyc1540
mangy?1548
pagan1550
damned1563
misbegotten1571
putid1580
desperate1581
excremental1591
inexecrable?1594
sacred1594
putrid1628
sad1664
blasted1682
plagued1728
damnation1757
infernal1764
damn1775
pesky1775
deuced1782
shocking1798
blessed1806
darned1815
dinged1821
anointed1823
goldarn1830
darn1835
cussed1837
blamed1840
unholy1842
verdomde1850
bleeding1858
ghastly1860
goddam1861
blankety1872
blame1876
bastard1877
God-awful1877
dashed1881
sodding1881
bally1885
ungodly1887
blazing1888
dee1889
motherfucking1890
blistering1900
plurry1900
Christly1910
blinking1914
blethering1915
blighted1915
blighting1916
soddish1922
somethinged1922
effing1929
Jesus1929
dagnab1934
bastarding1944
Christless1947
mother-loving1948
mothering1951
pussyclaat1957
mother-grabbing1959
pigging1970
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 128 & an meiðhad mei beon forloren þurch an stinkinde wil.
c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 101 Stynkynge pryde.
c1450 Mirour Saluacioun (Roxb.) 149 Wasshe me out of bandes of my stynking synne vile.
c1530 Songs, Carols, etc. (1907) 111 Thou stynkyng coward!
1554 T. Becon Humble Supplicacion sig. Dviv Banyshe out of the congergacion that most vile & stinking Idoll the Masse.
1684 T. Otway Atheist i. 1 Where I..got no Meat, but such as the old Succubus his Wife bought at a stinking Price.
1710 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1886) II. 351 A man of Parts, but a most vile, stinking Whigg.
1898 Daily News 23 July 9/4 He had called her ‘a stinker’ and ‘a stinking idiot.’
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > [adverb]
fouleOE
foullyOE
puantlya1529
stinkingly1545
rammishly1567
noisomely1589
stinking1589
rankfully1607
rancidly1637
sulphuriously1638
pungently1658
rankly1661
sulphureously1677
overcomingly1840
loud1871
unfragrantly1883
malodorously1903
1589 ‘Marphoreus’ Martins Months Minde To Rdr. sig. Dv Their iests bee so stinking stale; as you must holde your nose while you reade them.
a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) 263 Half a silurus, which is now stinking-ripe.
e. As an intensifier: ‘offensively’, in stinking drunk, stinking rich (somewhat derogatory); also absol. and const. with, having too much (money, etc.). Cf. stink v. 2. colloquial.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > completely or very drunk
drunk as a (drowned) mousea1350
to-drunka1382
as drunk as the devilc1400
sow-drunk1509
fish-drunk1591
swine-drunk1592
gone1603
far gone1616
reeling drunk1620
soda1625
souseda1625
blind1630
full1631
drunk (also merry, tipsy) as a lord1652
as full (or tight) as a tick1678
clear1688
drunk (dull, mute) as a fish1700
as drunk as David's sow or as a sow1727
as drunk as a piper1728
blind-drunkc1775
bitch foua1796
blootered1820
whole-seas over1820
three sheets in the wind1821
as drunk as a loon1830
shellaced1881
as drunk as a boiled owl1886
stinking1887
steaming drunk1892
steaming with drink1897
footless1901
legless1903
plastered1912
legless drunk1926
stinko1927
drunk as a pissant1930
kaylied1937
langers1949
stoned1952
smashed1962
shit-faced1963
out of (also off) one's bird1966
trashed1966
faced1968
stoned1968
steaming1973
langered1979
annihilated1980
obliterated1984
wankered1992
muntered1998
the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [adjective] > provided with an excess of something
superfluous1531
overburdened1581
surcharged1615
overloaded1671
overladen1866
stinking1940
stinko1960
the mind > possession > wealth > [adjective] > very or fabulously
as rich as Crœsus1577
to be made of money1781
super-rich1901
stinking1945
loaded1948
mega-rich1980
mega-money1989
1887 Lantern (New Orleans) 12 Feb. 3/1 Dey had four bottles er booze and got stinkin' 'fore two o'clock.
1926 L. H. Nason Chevrons iii. 96 He went off and got stinking drunk.
1934 E. Waugh Handful of Dust iii. 115 ‘Tight that night.’ ‘Stinking.’
1940 E. Pound Cantos LII–LXXI lvi. 62 Sangko stinking with graft.
1945 E. S. Gardner Case of Gold-digger's Purse ii. 9 Not only is he rich but he's stinking rich.
1956 A. Christie Dead Man's Folly ii. 27 Stinking with money—absolutely stinking!
1965 New Statesman 19 Mar. 462/2 The father meets old cronies and gets stinking drunk.
1978 N. Marsh Grave Mistake iv. 111 She was in affluent circumstances, stinking rich in fact.
1980 D. Bogarde Gentle Occup. i. 22 The only thing to do is to get absolutely stinking... It was the best thing in the world for despair: a good skin-full.
Compounds
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stinking badger n. = teledu n. (Cassell 1888).
stinking bird n. = stink-bird n. at stink n. Compounds.
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > [noun] > member of Opisthocomidae (hoatzin)
hoatzin1661
stinking bird1862
stink-bird1869
1862 in Veness El Dorado (1866) App. 154 Eggs of Opisthocomus cristatus Stinking bird, or Canje Pheasant.
stinking bug n. = stink-bug n. at stink n. Compounds.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Heteroptera > member of family Pentatomidae (stink-beetle)
stinking bug1815
stink-bug1877
stink beetle1889
1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) I. viii. 231 Nothing can exceed the irritation caused by the stinking bugs when they get into the hair or between the linen and the body.
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stinking bunt n. = stinking smut ( Cent. Dict. 1891).
stinking coal n. dialect = stinker n. 4.
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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > coal or types of coal > [noun] > small, refuse, impure, or coal-dust
slackc1440
smith coal1466
smithy coal1482
coal dusta1529
panwood1531
smith's coal1578
kirving1599
culm1603
coom1611
small coal1643
smit1670
smut1686
slag1695
duff1724
duff coal1724
small1780
gum1790
stinking coal1803
cobbles1811
nubbling1825
stinkers1841
rubble1844
pea1855
nuts1857
nut coal1861
slap1865
burgee1867
smudge1883
waste1883
treble1901
coal smut1910
gumming1938
nutty slack1953
1803 J. Plymley Gen. View Agric. Shropshire 53 Brown rock, called the stinking-coal rock.
1868 Parton Shropshire Coal-Field 4 The Stinking Coal, is noted for containing a great proportion of sulphuret of iron.
stinking fish n.
Brit. /ˌstɪŋkɪŋ ˈfɪʃ/
, /ˌstɪŋkɪŋ ˈfɪʃ/U.S. /ˌstɪŋkɪŋ ˈfɪʃ/
, /ˌstɪŋkɪŋ ˈfɪʃ/West African English /ˌstiŋkin ˈfiʃ/
(a) in allusion to the phr. to cry stinking fish at cry v. 5b(b): something worthless or rotten; (b) Ghana (see quot. 1973)./ˌstiŋkin ˈfiʃ/ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > foulness or filth > foul thing > [noun]
fouleOE
dung?c1225
carrion?1529
feculence1662
nastiness1831
muck1882
stinking fish1935
grunge1965
the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > cured fish > salted or pickled fish
pickle-herring1463
round shore-herring1469
split herring1469
white herring1469
white-salted herring1469
ling fish1489
pickled herring?1577
mudfish1600
old ling1600
sea-stick1604
cor1624
crux-herrings1641
red fish1728
dunfish1746
sea steak1798
caveach1822
fair maid1823
dun codfish1839
crape-fish1856
black herring1883
rollmop1892
schmaltz herring1912
stink-fish1913
stinking fish1935
Spithead pheasant1948
1935 E. R. Eddison Mistress vi. 98 Have I not proof of 's loyal mind within reason: his refusing on't when Lessingham did offer it? Nay, 'twas but stinking fish then: 'twas under suzerainty.
1968 J. Abruquah Torrent ii. 29 You are treated nice when you are a stranger instead of having little bits of dried stinking fish and kenkey thrown at you.
1973 K. A. Sey Ghanaian Eng. vii. 90 Stinking fish, fish preserved with salt and used for seasoning ‘soups’ and ‘stews’.
1981 N. J. Crisp Festival xi. 260 Vincent Consel said to his editor, ‘I detect the faint aroma of stinking fish.’
stinking ill n. a disease of sheep.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of sheep > [noun] > other disorders of sheep
pocka1325
soughta1400
pox1530
mad1573
winter rot1577
snuffa1585
leaf1587
leaf-sickness1614
redwater1614
mentigo1706
tag1736
white water1743
hog pox1749
rickets1755
side-ill1776
resp1789
sheep-fag1789
thorter-ill1791
vanquish1792
smallpox1793
shell-sicknessc1794
sickness1794
grass-ill1795
rub1800
pine1804
pining1804
sheep-pock1804
stinking ill1807
water sickness1807
core1818
wryneck1819
tag-belt1826
tag-sore1828
kibe1830
agalaxia1894
agalactia1897
lupinosis1899
trembling1902
struck1903
black disease1906
scrapie1910
renguerra1917
pulpy kidney1927
dopiness1932
blowfly strike1933
body strike1934
sleepy sickness1937
swayback1938
twin lamb disease1945
tick pyaemia1946
fly-strike1950
maedi1952
nematodiriasis1957
visna1957
maedi-visna1972
visna-maedi1972
1807 A. Duncan in Prize Ess. & Trans. Highland Soc. Scotl. 3 364 On opening the body, it emits a strong sulphureous smell, characteristic of the disease; hence it is sometimes called the stinking ill.
stinking pheasant n. = stink pheasant n. at stink n. Compounds (Webster 1911).
stinking polecat n. one of the skunks or Mustelidæ.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Mustelidae (weasel, marten, otter, or badger) > [noun] > genus Mephitis (skunk)
polecat1605
skunk1634
huffer1729
skunk weasel1771
mouffette1774
stinking polecat1791
mephitic weasel1827
essence-peddler1838
zorrino1885
skunklet1888
wood-pussy1899
1791 W. Smellie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Gen. & Particular (ed. 3) VII. 295 (heading) The Mouffettes, or Stinking Polecats.
stinking rust n. = stinking smut n.
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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > fungal > associated with crop or food plants > smut or smutty condition
ustilago1578
smit1585
smutting1621
smuttiness1659
smut1665
bragc1682
burnt-eara1722
slain1788
dust-brand1850
stinking rust1861
stinking bunt1889
loose smut1890
stinking smut1891
dust1897
1861 Chamb. Encycl. II. 155/1 The disease in wheat..which is also called Smut-balls, Bunt, Pepper Brand, or Stinking-Rust.
stinking smut n. a fungoid disease of plants.
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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > fungal > associated with crop or food plants > smut or smutty condition
ustilago1578
smit1585
smutting1621
smuttiness1659
smut1665
bragc1682
burnt-eara1722
slain1788
dust-brand1850
stinking rust1861
stinking bunt1889
loose smut1890
stinking smut1891
dust1897
1891 Cent. Dict. at Smut The stinking smut is caused by two species of fungus.
C2. In many names of plants.
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stinking camomile n.
stinking hellebore n.
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stinking horehound n.
stinking iris n.
stinking maidweed n. (also stinking mayweed, stinking maythe)
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1670 J. Ray Catalogus Plantarum Angliæ 84 Cotula fœtida... Stinking Mayweed or Maithes.
stinking motherwort n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Chenopodiaccae (goose-foot and allies) > [noun] > goose-foot
goose-foot1548
oak of Jerusalem1551
chenopod1555
oak of Paradise1578
stinking motherwort1578
allseed1597
chenopodium1597
good King Harry1597
stinking orach1597
sowbane1657
strawberry blite1753
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. iv. 549 I haue named it in Englishe, The ranke stinking Goate, or stinking Motherwort.
stinking nightshade n.
C3. † stinking tree n. Obsolete = stink-tree n. (b) at stink n. Compounds.
stinking ash n. box elder (Webster 1911).
stinking bean trefoil n. (see quot. 1816-20).
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1816–20 T. Green Universal Herbal I. 94/1 Anagyris Fœtida, Stinking Bean Trefoil,..grows wild in France, Spain, [etc.].
stinking Billy n. (or stinking Willie) the common ragwort, Senecio Jacobæa ( Eng. Dial. Dict.).
stinking Bob n. herb Robert, Geranium Robertianum ( Eng. Dial. Dict.).
stinking cedar n. any species of Torreya.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > cedar and allies > [noun]
cedarc1000
cedar-treec1000
fir-cedar1601
white cedar1654
arbor vitae1664
Thuya1707
thuja1764
American arbor vitae1785
Honduras cedar1799
Cedrela1832
kawaka1832
deodar1842
stinking cedar1866
stinking yew1866
Alaska cedar1874
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. at Cedar Stinking Cedar, Torreya taxifolia.
stinking Christopher n. various kinds of figwort, Scrophularia ( Eng. Dial. Dict.).
stinking crane's bill n. (see quot. 1857).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > geranium and allied flowers > allied flowers
herb Roberta1300
stick pile?a1450
culverfootc1450
devil's needlea1500
crane's-bill1548
dove's-foot1548
geranium1548
shepherd's needle1562
bloodroot1578
Gratia Dei1578
sanguine root1578
pigeon's-foot1597
Roman cranesbill1648
robin1694
redshanka1722
musk1728
ragged Robert1734
pigeon-foot1736
rose geranium1773
mountain flowera1787
wood cranesbill1796
peppermint-scented geranium1823
stork's bill1824
wild geranium1840
musk geranium1845
pin grass1847
Robert1847
stinking crane's bill1857
mourning widow1866
pinweed1876
ivy-leaved pelargonium1887
ivy-geranium1894
regal1894
peppermint geranium1922
1857 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. II. 40 Geranium Robertianum (Stinking Crane's-bill or Herb Robert).
stinking gladdon n. Iris fœtidissima.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > iris and related flowers > irises
gladdona700
gladiolusc1000
flaga1387
fleur-de-lisc1390
regworta1400
yellow flag1526
lug1538
yellow lily1555
spurge-wort1562
swordling1562
garden flag1578
ireos1578
iris1578
stinking iris1578
water flag1578
yellow iris1578
fane1597
Florentine flower-de-luce1597
stinking gladdon1597
stinking sedge1597
velvet flower-de-luce1597
orris1609
sisyrinchium1629
luce1642
Florence iris1664
cuttle-haft1688
blue flag1732
snake's-head iris1739
flag-flower1753
roast-beef plant1800
shalder1825
flag-leaf1827
sweet sedge1839
poison flag1840
flagger1842
wedding-flower1869
mourning iris1874
flagon1878
Rocky Mountain iris1880
Florentine iris1882
Japanese iris1883
flag-lily1884
sword-flag1884
blue iris1886
thunderbolt1898
scorpion iris1900
1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 53 Stinking Gladdon hath long narrow leaues like Iris, but smaller.
stinking grass n. = stink grass n. at stink n. Compounds. (W. 1911).
stinking gum n. an Australian gum tree ( Eucalyptus tereticornis) whose leaves have a strong cimicine smell (W. 1911).
stinking morel n. = stink-horn n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > stink-horns
gingran1660
stink-horn1724
phallus1759
stinking morel1777
stinking polecat1874
devil's horn1877
death baby1892
1777 J. Lightfoot Flora Scotica II. 1044 [Phallus impudicus] Stinking Morel. Stinkhorns. Anglis.
stinking orach n. = stinking motherwort n. at Compounds 2.
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1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 258 Stinking Orach is called of Cordus Garosmus, bicause it smelleth like stinking fish.
stinking polecat n. = stink-horn n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > stink-horns
gingran1660
stink-horn1724
phallus1759
stinking morel1777
stinking polecat1874
devil's horn1877
death baby1892
1874 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. (rev. ed.) Suppl. 1344/2 Stinking Polecat, Phallus impudicus.
stinking Roger n. Scrophularia and other plants ( Eng. Dial. Dict.).
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > viburnums or guelder rose and allies > [noun]
bendwithc1440
opier1548
opulus1548
ople1551
dwarf plane tree1578
water elder1578
whitten1578
guelder rose1597
rose elder1597
wayfaring man's tree1597
wayfaring tree1597
opiet1601
cotton tree1633
viorne1637
mealy tree1640
laurustinus1664
stinking tree1681
black haw1688
laurel-thyme1693
laurustine1693
viburnum1731
wayfaring shrub1731
May rose1753
pembina1760
snowball tree1760
mealtree1785
stink-tree1795
cherry-wood1821
snowball1828
sloe1846
withe-rod1846
lithy-tree1866
nannyberry1867
king's crown1879
stag bush1884
snowball bush1931
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis ii. §i. i. 180 Part of an Arm of the Stinking-Tree.
stinking trefoil n. = stinking bean trefoil n.
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1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. A.viij Anagyris..maye be called stynkynge trifoly in englishe, or beane tree.
stinking weed n. (a) Cassia occidentalis; (b) Senecio Jacobæa.
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1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 224 Stinking-weed. This plant is very common about Kingston.
1777 J. Lightfoot Flora Scotica II. App. 1132 [Senecio Jacobæa] The stinking weed. Scot. aust.
stinking wood n. a name for various trees the timber of which has a fetid smell, esp. Cassia occidentalis and Anagyris fœtida.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > [noun] > stinkwoods
stinkwood1731
stinking wood1793
cannibal stinkwood1859
1793 J. Trapp tr. Rochon Voy. Madagascar Prelim. Disc. p. xxviii Tacamacca, stinking-wood, and ever so many other valuable trees.
1862 E. Balfour Timber Trees India 77 Chee Neb Burm. Stinking Wood. Eng.
stinking yew n. = stinking cedar n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > cedar and allies > [noun]
cedarc1000
cedar-treec1000
fir-cedar1601
white cedar1654
arbor vitae1664
Thuya1707
thuja1764
American arbor vitae1785
Honduras cedar1799
Cedrela1832
kawaka1832
deodar1842
stinking cedar1866
stinking yew1866
Alaska cedar1874
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Torreya, a genus of Taxaceæ, to which the name of Stinking Yews has been given.
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