stank

It wasn’t a particularly busy day, but the place stank of urine, blood, and feces, Holmes says.
This scientist now believes covid started in Wuhan’s wet market. Here’s why.|Jane Qiu|November 19, 2021|MIT Technology Review
The air hung thick like dirty pudding and stank of burnt rubber as I made my way out of the roadside pullout I was camped in.
Outrunning Fires in North Cascades National Park|mturner|November 18, 2021|Outside Online
They had simple wit and no fashion sense, and they often stank of cheap beer and cheaper cologne.
Let Us Now Praise Famous Rednecks and Their Unjustly Unsung Kin|Allison Glock|August 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In 1429 he was one of the commissioners for the truce with Scotland which was concluded at Hawden Stank.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle|C. King Eley

He smelt the Prince's breath, and swore that it stank of a surfeit of undigested Martellian verses.
The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the first|Count Carlo Gozzi
It is no wonder that the Ecclesiastical Commission, which these men represented, soon stank in the nostrils of the English clergy.
History of the English People|John Richard Green
I sent it to you by letter-post and received for it instead of thanks, stench (statt Dank Stank).
The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume II (of 3)|Alexander Wheelock Thayer
The name Laflin stank in the nostrils of an outraged people.
The Broken Sword|Dennison Worthington

British Dictionary definitions for stank (1 of 3)

stank¹

/ (stæŋk) /

verb

a past tense of stink

British Dictionary definitions for stank (2 of 3)

stank²

/ (stæŋk) /

noun

a small cofferdam, esp one of timber made watertight with clay

Scot and Northern English dialect a pond or pool

verb

(tr) to make (a stream, cofferdam, etc) watertight, esp with clay

Word Origin for stank

C13: from Old French estanc, probably from estancher to stanch

British Dictionary definitions for stank (3 of 3)

stank³

/ (stæŋk) /

noun dialect

a drain, as in a roadway

a draining board adjacent to a sink unit

Word Origin for stank

special use of stank ² (in the sense: pool, pond)

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