STUNK

STINK

reek, stink

(verb) smell badly and offensively; “The building reeks of smoke”

stink

(verb) be extremely bad in quality or in one’s performance; “This term paper stinks!”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

stunk

simple past tense and past participle of stink

Anagrams

• knuts, tunks

Source: Wiktionary


Stunk,

Definition: imp. & p. p. of Stink.

STINK

Stink, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stunk, Stank (, p. pr. & vb. n. Stinking.] Etym: [AS. stinkan to have a smell (whether good or bad); akin to OHG. stinchan, G. & D. stinken to stink; of uncertain origin; cf. Icel. stökkva to leap, to spring, Goth. stigqan to push, strike, or Gr. Stench.]

Definition: To emit a strong, offensive smell; to send out a disgusting odor.

Stink, v. t.

Definition: To cause to stink; to affect by a stink.

Stink, n. Etym: [AS. stinc.]

Definition: A strong, offensive smell; a disgusting odor; a stench. Fire stink. See under Fire.

– Stink-fire lance. See under Lance.

– Stink rat (Zoöl.), the musk turtle. [Local, U.S.] -- Stink shad (Zoöl.), the gizzard shad. [Local, U.S.] Stink trap, a stench trap. See under Stench.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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