stink

Signification (Anglais)

Verb

1. (intransitive) To have a strong bad smell.
2. (informal, intransitive, stative) To be greatly inferior; to perform badly.
3. (intransitive) To give an impression of dishonesty, untruth, or sin.
4. (transitive) To cause to stink; to affect by a stink.

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A strong bad smell.
2. (countable, informal, uncountable) A complaint or objection.

Adj

1. (New-Zealand, slang) Bad; inferior; worthless.
2. (Caribbean, Guyana, Jamaica) Bad-smelling, stinky.

Concepts

puer

puanteur

empester

cocotter

sentir

👃

schlinguer

fétidité

sentir mauvais

puant

mauvaise odeur

exhalaison

fouetter

être parfumé

air vicié

briller

cocoter

mauvais

👎

tapage

tracas

émettre une odeur

être dégueulasse

être infect

exhaler un odeur

odeur de renfermé

odeur fétide

odeur infecte

relent

Synonymes

smell

👃

stench

reek

smell bad

bad smell

pong

odor

fetor

fetidness

stinking

malodour

niff

smelliness

malodorous

malodorousness

funk

mephitis

malodor

smell rotten

fuss

rot

foul

bad odour

foetor

suck

stink out

vapor

vapors

vapour

vapours

bad-smelling

be bright

be fragrant

be poor

foul smell

smell high

smell musty

smell strong

smell strongly

bad odor

offensive smell

rotten smell

frowst

fear

😨

be bad

be rank

become putrid

give off a bad odor

have an unpleasant odour

reek to high heaven

Traductions

stinken

Gestank

puzzare

👃

stinken

puzzo

👃

apestar

stank

hedor

heder

lezzo

fetore

puzza

fedor

feder

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/stɪŋk/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: stynken

Hérité de ancien anglais: stincan

Appartenant à frison occidental: stjonke

Appartenant à néerlandais: stinken

Appartenant à allemand: stinken

Appartenant à danois: stinke

Appartenant à suédois: stinka

Appartenant à islandais: stökkva

In summary

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 stinke (“to stink”), Swedish stinka (“to stink”), Icelandic stökkva (“to spring, leap, jump”).