英语词汇“stinks”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

stinks

释义

stink /stingk/

intransitive verb (pat stank or stunk; pap stunk)

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

transitive verb

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

noun

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

ORIGIN: OE stincan to smell (well or bad)

stinkˈard noun

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

stinkˈer noun

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

stinkˈing adjective

Offensive or evil in smell, reputation, etc

adverb (informal)

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

stinkˈingly adverb

stinkˈy adjective

Having an offensive smell
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

stinkˈpot noun

A foul-smelling person or thing
An unpleasant person (derogatory)
A N American turtle that releases foul-smelling secretions

stink pot see stink ball above.

stinkˈstone noun

A limestone that gives a fetid urinous smell when rubbed

stinkˈweed noun

Any foul-smelling plant

stinkˈwood noun

The foul-smelling wood of various trees, esp the lauraceous Ocotea bullata of S Africa

like stink (informal)

Very much, to a great extent
Intensely

raise a stink

To complain
To cause trouble, esp disagreeable publicity

stink out (informal)

To drive out by a bad smell
To fill (a room, etc) with a bad smell

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