stink
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Động từ
verb- 1.
(intransitive)To have a strong bad smell.
- 2.
(informal, intransitive, stative)To be greatly inferior; to perform badly.
That movie stinks. I didn't even stay for the end.
- 3.
(intransitive)To give an impression of dishonesty, untruth, or sin.
Something stinks about the politician's excuses.
- 4.
(transitive)To cause to stink; to affect by a stink.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(countable, uncountable)A strong bad smell.
- 2.
(countable, informal, uncountable)A complaint or objection.
If you don't make a stink about the problem, nothing will be done.
She's made a big stink about me calling her "Miss", not "Ms".
Tính từ
adjective- 1.
(New Zealand, slang)Bad; inferior; worthless.
The concert was stink. / That was a stink concert.
- 2.
(Caribbean, Guyana, Jamaica)Bad-smelling, stinky.
2013, Stabroek News, 19 February 2013, cited by Deborah Jan Osman Backer in a speech delivered in the National Assembly during the Budget Debate, 2013, Everyone is up in arms but it smells stink because it smells of racism…
2016, Kei Miller, Augustown, New York: Pantheon, Chapter 1, p. 5, […] what Ma Taffy smells on this early afternoon makes her sit up straight. She smells it high and ripe and stink on the air, like a bright green jackfruit in season being pulled to the rocky ground below.
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From Middle English stinken, from Old English stincan, from Proto-Germanic *stinkwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *stengʷ-, *stegʷ- (to push, thrust, strike). Cognate with stjonke to stink, stinken to stink, stinken to stink, stinke to stink, stinka to stink, stökkva.