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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Stinking \Stink"ing\, a. & n. from {Stink}, v.
{Stinking badger} (Zo["o]l.), the teledu.
{Stinking cedar} (Bot.), the California nutmeg tree; also, a related tree of Florida ({Torreya taxifolia}).
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Stink \Stink\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Stunk}, {Stank}, p. pr. & vb. n. {Stinking}.] [AS. stinkan to have a smell (whether good or bad); akin to OHG. stinchan, G. & D. stinken to stink; of uncertain origin; cf. Icel. st["o]kkva to leap, to spring, Goth. stigqan to push, strike, or Gr. ? rancid. Cf. {Stench}.] To emit a strong, offensive smell; to send out a disgusting odor.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
stinking
adjective
1: very bad; "a lousy play"; "it's a stinking world" [syn: {icky}, {crappy}, {lousy}, {rotten}, {shitty}, {stinky}]
2: offensively malodorous; "a putrid smell" [syn: {fetid}, {foetid}, {foul}, {foul-smelling}, {funky}, {noisome}, {smelly}, {putrid}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
138 Moby Thesaurus words for "stinking": abhorrent, abominable, awful, bad, bad-smelling, barfy, base, beastly, below contempt, beneath contempt, besotted, bombed, boozy, brackish, bum, canned, cheesy, cloying, contemptible, crappy, creepy, crude, crummy, dastardly, despicable, detestable, dirty, disguised, disgusting, drunk, drunken, execrable, fecal, fetid, forbidding, foul, frowsty, frowy, frowzy, fulsome, funky, fusty, gamy, godawful, goshawful, graveolent, grim, gross, hairy, hateful, heinous, high, icky, ignoble, ill-smelling, in the bag, inebriated, intoxicated, loaded, loathsome, lousy, low, maggoty, malodorous, maudlin, mawkish, mean, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, mildewed, mildewy, moldy, muddled, musty, nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, nidorous, noisome, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, odorous, offensive, olid, overripe, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, poisonous, potted, punk, putrid, rancid, rank, reasty, reasy, rebarbative, reechy, reeking, reeky, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, shitty, sickening, smashed, smellful, smelling, smelly, sozzled, spoiled, stenchy, stinky, stoned, strong, stuffy, sulfurous, tanked, terrible, tipsy, under the influence, under the weather, vile, villainous, vomity, weevily, woozy, wretched, yecchy, yucky
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