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Meanings of stink in English

Russian
вонь
Portuguese
fedor
Catalan
pudor
Spanish
hedor
Wikidata

Odor perceived as unpleasant by humans.

      вонь
      Portuguese
      tresandar
      Catalan
      fer podor

      Smell badly and offensively.

              Related terms
              tresandar
              Usage of stink in English
              1
              Okay, now the VP of Human Resources is giving me major stink-eye.
              Sorry Please Thank You: Stories
              2
              The change comes, and these plants will wither and rot and stink.
              Saint's Progress
              3
              But the worst stink there is on Fenris is a tallow-wax fire.
              Four-Day Planet
              4
              To feel one's powers going, and to end in snuff and stink.
              Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography
              5
              Nell thinks a bird would be crazy to eat a stink bug.
              The Insect Folk
              6
              The unmistakable stomach-churning miasma of latrine-stink mixed with sweat and cooking odours.
              Orb Sceptre Throne
              7
              Then he stalked out of the restaurant, while the stink-eyed waitress gawked.
              Audrey's door
              8
              If the dock was removable, design freaks wouldn't give it the stink-eye.
              Wired
              9
              The girl's brother, Manfred, he was round here earlier raising a stink.'
              Amagansett
              10
              Doth not this justice of hell stink in Thy nostrils, O God?
              Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil
              11
              Can I give you a lift back on my private stink machine?
              Mufti
              12
              Have thy sins corrupted thy wounds, and made them putrefy and stink?
              Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01
              13
              The bed did stink, but only of good soap and recent love.
              Complete Books of Blood
              14
              As with the ants, whosoever does not stink like me, I kill!
              Clerambault: The Story of an Independent Spirit During the War
              15
              If someone says you stink at your job, that doesn't feel great.
              Reuters
              16
              Within a few days, she thought idly, the stink would be amazing.
              Mech
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              Translations for stink
              Spanish
              hedorpeste
              Stink through the time
              Stink across language varieties
              United States of America
              Common
              Ireland
              Common
              United Kingdom
              Less common