stink /stingk/

1. To give out a strong, offensive smell
2. To be offensive, have a bad reputation, suggest or imply evil or dishonesty (figurative)

1. To impart a bad smell to (a room, etc; with out)
2. To drive by a bad smell (with out, etc)

1. An offensive smell
2. An outraged reaction, a furore
3. (in pl) chemistry or science, a science master (school sl)

stinkˈard noun

1. Someone who stinks, an offensive person (rare or obsolete)
2. A name given to various foul-smelling animals, eg the stinking badger of Java

stinkˈer noun

1. A person or thing that stinks
2. A disagreeable person or thing (informal)
3. A very difficult question, task, etc
4. A stinkard
5. A fulmar or petrel that ejects a foul-smelling oil from its stomach (naut sl)

stinkˈing adjective

Offensive or evil in smell, reputation, etc

Very, extremely, esp as in stinking rich, stinking drunk

stinkˈingly adverb

stinkˈy adjective

1. Having an offensive smell
2. Highly unpleasant

stink ball or stink pot noun (historical)

A ball or jar filled with a stinking, combustible mixture, used to create a suffocating smoke when boarding an enemy's vessel

stinkˈbird see hoatzin

stink bomb noun

A usu small bomblike container which releases foul-smelling gases when exploded

stink bug noun

A shield bug that releases foul-smelling secretions

stinkˈhorn noun

A stinking gasteromycete fungus, Phallus impudicus

stinking camomile noun

Mayweed

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