Stinking

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stinking \Stink"ing\,
     a. & n. from {Stink}, v.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     {Stinking badger} (Zool.), the teledu.
  


     {Stinking cedar} (Bot.), the California nutmeg tree; also, a
        related tree of Florida ({Torreya taxifolia}).
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stink \Stink\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Stunk}, {Stank}, p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Stinking}.] [AS. stinkan to have a smell (whether
     good or bad); akin to OHG. stinchan, G. & D. stinken to
     stink; of uncertain origin; cf. Icel. st["o]kkva to leap, to
     spring, Goth. stigqan to push, strike, or Gr. ? rancid. Cf.
     {Stench}.]
     To emit a strong, offensive smell; to send out a disgusting
     odor.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  stinking
       adj 1: very bad; "a lousy play"; "it's a stinking world" [syn: {icky},
               {crappy}, {lousy}, {rotten}, {shitty}, {stinky}]
       2: offensively malodorous; "a putrid smell" [syn: {fetid}, {foetid},
           {foul}, {foul-smelling}, {funky}, {noisome}, {smelly}, {putrid}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  138 Moby Thesaurus words for "stinking":
     abhorrent, abominable, awful, bad, bad-smelling, barfy, base,
     beastly, below contempt, beneath contempt, besotted, bombed, boozy,
     brackish, bum, canned, cheesy, cloying, contemptible, crappy,
     creepy, crude, crummy, dastardly, despicable, detestable, dirty,
     disguised, disgusting, drunk, drunken, execrable, fecal, fetid,
     forbidding, foul, frowsty, frowy, frowzy, fulsome, funky, fusty,
     gamy, godawful, goshawful, graveolent, grim, gross, hairy, hateful,
     heinous, high, icky, ignoble, ill-smelling, in the bag, inebriated,
     intoxicated, loaded, loathsome, lousy, low, maggoty, malodorous,
     maudlin, mawkish, mean, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, mildewed,
     mildewy, moldy, muddled, musty, nasty, nauseant, nauseating,
     nauseous, nidorous, noisome, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious,
     obscene, odious, odorous, offensive, olid, overripe, pie-eyed,
     pissed, pixilated, plastered, poisonous, potted, punk, putrid,
     rancid, rank, reasty, reasy, rebarbative, reechy, reeking, reeky,
     repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, shitty,
     sickening, smashed, smellful, smelling, smelly, sozzled, spoiled,
     stenchy, stinky, stoned, strong, stuffy, sulfurous, tanked,
     terrible, tipsy, under the influence, under the weather, vile,
     villainous, vomity, weevily, woozy, wretched, yecchy, yucky