stinking

4 definitions found

stinking - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Stinking \Stink"ing\,
     a. & n. from Stink, v.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Stinking badger (Zool.), the teledu.
  
     Stinking cedar (Bot.), the California nutmeg tree; also, a
        related tree of Florida (Torreya taxifolia).
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  Stink \Stink\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stunk, Stank, p. pr. &
     vb. n. Stinking.] [AS. stinkan to have a smell (whether
     good or bad); akin to OHG. stinchan, G. & D. stinken to
     stink; of uncertain origin; cf. Icel. st["o]kkva to leap, to
     spring, Goth. stigqan to push, strike, or Gr. ? rancid. Cf.
     Stench.]
     To emit a strong, offensive smell; to send out a disgusting
     odor.
     [1913 Webster]

stinking - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  stinking
      adj 1: very bad; "a lousy play"; "it's a stinking world" [syn:
             icky, crappy, lousy, rotten, shitty,
             stinking, stinky]
      2: offensively malodorous; "a foul odor"; "the kitchen smelled
         really funky" [syn: fetid, foetid, foul, foul-   smelling
         , funky, noisome, smelly, stinking, ill-   scented
         ]

stinking - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  138 Moby Thesaurus words for "stinking":
     abhorrent, abominable, awful, bad, bad-smelling, barfy, base,
     beastly, below contempt, beneath contempt, besotted, bombed, boozy,
     brackish, bum, canned, cheesy, cloying, contemptible, crappy,
     creepy, crude, crummy, dastardly, despicable, detestable, dirty,
     disguised, disgusting, drunk, drunken, execrable, fecal, fetid,
     forbidding, foul, frowsty, frowy, frowzy, fulsome, funky, fusty,
     gamy, godawful, goshawful, graveolent, grim, gross, hairy, hateful,
     heinous, high, icky, ignoble, ill-smelling, in the bag, inebriated,
     intoxicated, loaded, loathsome, lousy, low, maggoty, malodorous,
     maudlin, mawkish, mean, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, mildewed,
     mildewy, moldy, muddled, musty, nasty, nauseant, nauseating,
     nauseous, nidorous, noisome, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious,
     obscene, odious, odorous, offensive, olid, overripe, pie-eyed,
     pissed, pixilated, plastered, poisonous, potted, punk, putrid,
     rancid, rank, reasty, reasy, rebarbative, reechy, reeking, reeky,
     repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, shitty,
     sickening, smashed, smellful, smelling, smelly, sozzled, spoiled,
     stenchy, stinky, stoned, strong, stuffy, sulfurous, tanked,
     terrible, tipsy, under the influence, under the weather, vile,
     villainous, vomity, weevily, woozy, wretched, yecchy, yucky