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noun
- A strong bad smell.
- (informal) A complaint or objection.
- If you don't make a stink about the problem, nothing will be done.
- (in plural stinks; slang) Chemistry (as a subject taught in school)
- (slang) (New Zeland) A failure or unfortunate event.
- The concert was stink.
Translations: - Dutch: stank
- French: puanteur , mauvaise odeur
- German: Gestank
(trans-mid)
- Italian: puzza
- Spanish: tufo
verb (stinks, stinking, stank, stunk)
- (intransitive) To have a strong bad smell.
- (intransitive) (informal) To be greatly inferior; to perform badly.
- That movie stinks. I didn't even stay for the end.
- (intransitive) To give an impression of dishonesty or untruth.
- Something stinks about the politician's excuses.
Translations: - Dutch: stinken
- French: puer
- German: stinken
(trans-mid)
- Italian: puzzare
Etymology: Old English stincan
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