stink

Meanings

Plural: stinks

Noun

a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant
A strong bad smell.
A complaint or objection.

Verb

be extremely bad in quality or in one's performance
- "This term paper stinks!"
smell badly and offensively
To have a strong bad smell.
To be greatly inferior; to perform badly.
To give an impression of dishonesty, untruth, or sin.
To cause to stink; to affect by a stink.

Adj

Bad; inferior; worthless.
Bad-smelling, stinky.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English stinken, from Old English stincan, from Proto-Germanic *stinkwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *stengʷ-, *stegʷ- (“to push, thrust, strike”). Cognate with West Frisian stjonke (“to stink”), Dutch stinken (“to stink”), German stinken (“to stink”), Danish stinke (“to stink”), Swedish stinka (“to stink”), Icelandic stökkva (“to spring, leap, jump”).

Synonyms

be fishy, blow, fetor, foetor, malodor, malodour, mephitis, odor, odour, pong, reek, smell, stench, suck

Scrabble Score: 9

stink is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
stink is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
stink is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

stink is a valid Words With Friends word