Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
A strong bad smell. · A complaint or objection.
verb
To have a strong bad smell. · To be greatly inferior; to perform badly. · To give an impression of dishonesty, untruth, or sin. · To cause to stink; to affect by a stink.
adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryBad; inferior; worthless. · Bad-smelling, stinky.
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”). Compare typologically Russian рази́ть (razítʹ).
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