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astink en · ADJ

Etymology

From a- + stink.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Stinking.
    • […] the Rector ordered that his room should be cleaned and all the poisons he kept there taken away. Six weeks later it was all astink again. 1950, Louis De Wohl, The Quiet Light, Philadelphia: Lippincott, Book 3, Chapter 15, p. 239:
    • And the doctor’s Jezebel come running from her lustful bed, still astink with sin and fear. 1932, William Faulkner, chapter 16, in Light in August, New York: Random House:
    • The earth between and beyond the lines Ravaged and sown with steel And churned with blood And astink with decaying men, 1920, F. S. Flint, “Hats”, in Ira Dilworth, editor, Twentieth Century Verse: An Anthology, Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, published 1945, page 162:
    • Their fish camp down the Yukon can be discouraging, too—a dirty, fetid, lightless cabin astink in aging salmon. 1977, John McPhee, Coming into the Country, New York: Bantam, Book 3, p. 386:
    • Penny […] emptied her chamber pot on the rutting pairs. Astink and horrified, the girls complained, 2006, Ben Ehrenreich, chapter 2, in The Suitors,, New York: Counterpoint, page 13: