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Webster 1913 Edition
Stinking
Stink′ing
,Stinking badger
(Zool.)
, the teledu.
– Stinking cedar
(Bot.)
, the California nutmeg tree; also, a related tree of Florida (
Torreya taxifolia
).Webster 1828 Edition
Stinking
STINKING
,ppr.
Definition 2024
stinking
stinking
English
Adjective
stinking (comparative more stinking, superlative most stinking)
- Having a pungent smell.
- Very bad and undesirable.
- Despite leading the way for years, the new model is really stinking.
- (euphemistic) An intensifier, a minced oath.
- We don't need your stinking sympathy.
Translations
bad smell
very bad
Verb
stinking
- present participle of stink
Noun
stinking (plural stinkings)
- The emission of a foul smell.
- 2013, Phaedra. C Pezzullo, Cultural Studies and Environment, Revisited (page 42)
- 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.
- 2013, Phaedra. C Pezzullo, Cultural Studies and Environment, Revisited (page 42)