stinking

Meanings

Plural: stinkings

Verb

be extremely bad in quality or in one's performance
smell badly and offensively
present participle and gerund of stink

Adjective Satellite

very bad
- "it's a stinking world"
offensively malodorous

Adj

Having a pungent smell.
Very bad and undesirable.
Very drunk.
An intensifier, a hypallage.

Noun

The emission of a foul smell.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English stynkynge, stinkinge, stinkinde, stinkende, stynkande, stynkand, from Old English stincende, from Proto-Germanic *stinkwandz (“stinking”), present participle of Proto-Germanic *stinkwaną (“to stink”), equivalent to stink + -ing. Cognate with Dutch stinkend (“stinking, stinky”), German stinkend (“stinking, stinky”), Danish stinkende (“stinking, stinky”), Norwegian stinkende (“stinking, stinky”).

Synonyms

crappy, fetid, foetid, foul, foul-smelling, funky, icky, ill-scented, lousy, noisome, reek, rotten, shitty, smelly, stink, stinky

Scrabble Score: 13

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

Words With Friends Score: 16

stinking is a valid Words With Friends word