SKANKY

disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky

(adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; “a disgusting smell”; “distasteful language”; “a loathsome disease”; “the idea of eating meat is repellent to me”; “revolting food”; “a wicked stench”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

skanky (comparative skankier, superlative skankiest)

(slang) in the manner of a skank (disreputable woman)

(slang) vile, lewd

Source: Wiktionary



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PEOPLE

(noun) members of a family line; “his people have been farmers for generations”; “are your people still alive?”


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The expression “coffee break” was first attested in 1952 in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.

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