stinkoadj.
/ˈstɪŋkəʊ/, U.S. /ˈstɪŋkoʊ/ slang (originally U.S.).
In predicative use.
a. Of a very low standard; very bad. Cf. stinkeroo n. rare.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > [adjective] > very
subter-superlative1655
terrible1775
third-rate1814
ternary1826
tenth-rate1834
No. Ten1880
tenth-remove1905
awful1916
raggedy1921
stinko1924
piss-poor1945
number ten1953
1924 F. S. Fitzgerald Let. 20 Dec. (1964) 174 I thought The White Monkey was stinko.
b. Intoxicated; blind drunk. Also as quasi-adverb, stinko drunk, (jocular) stinko paralytico.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adverb] > drunkenly
ebriously1569
drunkenly1574
tosspotlike1580
moistly1590
tipple square1600
temulently1623
Bacchus-like1640
tipsily1818
Bacchanalianly1864
beerishly1865
boozily1893
stinko paralytico1927
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
1927 New Republic 9 Mar. 72/1 The following is a partial list of words denoting drunkenness now in common use in the United States..stinko.
1936 P. G. Wodehouse Laughing Gas ix. 92 Are you really such a poor judge of form as to imagine that I am stinko?
1942 E. Waugh Put out More Flags iii. 182 ‘Darling, she was plastered.’ ‘Are you sure?’ ‘My dear, stinko paralytico.’
1954 G. Smith Flaw in Crystal 55 They generally come every night for a week and get stinko every night.
1960 S. H. Courtier Gently dust Corpse ii. 21 We ought to be getting stinko together today. An anniversary, see.
1974 D. Ramsay No Cause to Kill ii. 132 Jessie's a lush. Stinko most of her waking time.
1976 National Observer (U.S.) 6 Nov. 12/6 Poor unfortunates who get stinko drunk every day on skid row.
c. Over-supplied (with money, etc.). rare.
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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
1960 Sunday Express 28 Feb. 3/3 I should be a stockbroker or someone stinko with money.
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