Definitions
smell badly and offensively
Word origin
From Middle English stinken, from Old English stincan, from Proto-Germanic *stinkwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *stengʷ-, *stegʷ- (“to push, thrust, strike”). Cognate with West Frisian stjonke (“to stink”), Dutch stinken (“to stink”), German stinken (“to stink”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk stinke (“to stink”), Swedish stinka (“to stink”), Icelandic stökkva (“to spring, leap, jump”).
Used in a sentence
“That movie stinks. I didn't even stay for the end.”
“They gave me Out of Africa, by Isak Dinesen. I thought it was going to stink, but it didn't. It was a very good book.”
“My French stinks, Langdon thought, but my zodiac iconography is pretty good. Taurus was always the bull. Astrology was a symbolic constant all over the world.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Smell terrible”5 letters
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