stinking

UK /ˈstɪŋkɪŋ/ US /ˈstɪŋkɪŋ/
adj 4noun 1

Definitions

adj

1

Having a pungent smell.

2

Very bad and undesirable.

I have a stinking cold.

3

Very drunk.

Oh, I got stinking—and, worse, acted like the world's worst heel to top it off. I passed out mentally about the time we left the club—which must have been around 2:30—but unfortunately didn't pass out physically.

4

An intensifier, a hypallage.

We don’t need your stinking sympathy.

noun

1

The emission of a foul smell.

From the magnificent ejaculation of the Waimangu geyser, to the tiniest of gaseous emissions, descriptions of the thermal reserve were rife with dischargings, bubblings and stinkings, quiverings and palpitations, orifices and protuberances.

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