stank
名词 n.
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
美 /ˈsteɪ̯ŋk/|[ˈsteɪ̯ŋk] ~ /ˈstɛ̃ŋk/|[ˈstɛ̃ŋk]
英文释义
名词 n.
- A stink; a foul smell.
- A certain quality, especially to jazz music, which is often desirable and can be achieved by, among other things, crunchy harmonies, blue notes and groovy rhythm
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Water retained by an embankment; a pool of water.
— And he [the hart] fleeth then mightily and far from the hounds, that is to say he hath gone a great way from them, then he will go into the stank, and will soil therein once or twice in all the stank and then he will come out again by the same way that he went in, and then he shall ruse again the same way that he came (the length of) a bow shot or more, and then he shall ruse out of the way, for to stall or squatt to rest him, and that he doeth for he knoweth well that the hounds shall come by the fues [footing] into the stank where he was.
- A dam or mound to stop water.
动词 v.
- simple past of stink
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To stink; to smell bad.
— I just ignored him because he stanked worst than I did.
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To dam up; to block the flow of water or other liquid.
— Water-courses are stanked where they take a sharp turn, to prevent the force of the current wearing away the bank at the outside angle.
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To surround or guard.
— This was executed with sch gallantry and spirit by the troops, that, notwithstanding the natural strength of this pos, the abbatis of fruit trees that were made, the batteries of the town of Bommel which stanked the approach, and the considerable number of men who defended it, it was soon carried, and the enemy driven across the river (every where passable on the ice) with considerable loss of men and of four pieces of cannon.
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To trample.
— In the por ( bustle ) I lost my hat ; tell gittin ' cloase to a mait-stannin ' (shambles), to saave myself from bein' stanked ( trampled ) under fut, I got up and set down 'pon the stannin' ; an ' then, aw, I feelt my sawl all a-fire weth love for everybody theere, and sprengin' to my feet, I begun to ex'ort, and then took to pray.
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To cause (the udders) to become blocked and inflamed from lack of milking.
— In cattle auctions, cows are frequently seen with “stanked udders,” when a cow is driven to market several miles along hard roads with a loaded udder, its milk is not improved for human consumption.
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To cause to smell bad.
— He was killing me with the jokes and he was killing everybody with his smuggled corned beef samages that stanked up the joint.
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To pack in tightly.
— They never dreamed of using a float; I doubt if there was such a thing in the whole valley; but they “stanked' their rods in the bank, with the line heavily shotted and arranged so that the hook was just clear of the bottom, the line being at right angles to the point of the rod.
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To stumble or lurch.
— I put on my clean gook to-day, And went to fetch some barm,When I stanked 'pon a slaw-cripple, Down there by Hodge's farm.
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To seal off an area of the mine in which a fire has started.
— The writer was obliged, a few months ago, to open out a whole district which had been "stanked off " ( as the phrase of the district is ) for over a year, and on approaching the old air-way the heat became intolerable and the fire was burning as badly as ever.
形容词 adj.
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Foul-smelling, stinking, unclean.
— Fishy, pussy funky elevator Pissy, broke ass project elevator Old baby piss, stank ass horse, cat piss smelling funky hot ass elevator I'm not climbing no 17 flights[…]
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Weak; worn out.
— I am so stiff and so stank, That uneath may I stand any more
词形变化
词源
词源 1
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
词源 2
Respelling of stink, representing the thank-think merger. Compare thang.
词源 3
From Old French estanc, (French étang), from Latin stagnum (“a pool”). Compare stagnant, stagnate.
词源 4
From Old French estanc, or Italian stanco. See stanch (adjective).
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