stink

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
发音 stĭngk

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A strong bad smell. countable,uncountable
    — “I’m thankful for this beautiful morning!” He points toward the sky. “See that sunrise? Smell that air—” / “That’s stink from the rendering plant.”
  2. A complaint or objection. countable,informal,uncountable
    — If you don't make a stink about the problem, nothing will be done.
动词 v.
  1. To have a strong bad smell. intransitive
  2. To be greatly inferior; to perform badly. informal,intransitive,stative
    — That movie stinks. I didn't even stay for the end.
  3. To give an impression of dishonesty, untruth, or sin. intransitive
    — Something stinks about the politician's excuses.
  4. To cause to stink; to affect by a stink. transitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Bad; inferior; worthless. New-Zealand,slang
    — The concert was stink. / That was a stink concert.
  2. Bad-smelling, stinky. Caribbean,Guyana,Jamaica
    — 2013, Stabroek News, 19 February 2013, cited by Deborah Jan Osman Backer in a speech delivered in the National Assembly during the Budget Debate, 2013, Everyone is up in arms but it smells stink because it smells of racism…

词形变化

stinks present,singular,third-person stinking participle,present stank past stunk past stunk participle,past stinks plural more stink comparative most stink superlative

词源

词源 1
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, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk stinke (“to stink”), Swedish stinka (“to stink”), Icelandic stökkva (“to spring, leap, jump”).
词源 2
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, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk stinke (“to stink”), Swedish stinka (“to stink”), Icelandic stökkva (“to spring, leap, jump”).
词源 3
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, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk stinke (“to stink”), Swedish stinka (“to stink”), Icelandic stökkva (“to spring, leap, jump”).
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