stanky

comparative more stanky · superlative most stanky

1. slangsmelly; stinky

   As fun as fish are to watch, they require a lot of fish food, and fish food makes fish poop, and pooping fish make for a stanky tank after too long. Just say no to stanky tanks.

   2010, Kevin Mills, Baby Codes: 101 Winning Combinations to Help Your Baby Sleep

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   A gross-gutted, bulb-nosed, bourbon-stanky Boston flatfoot in plain clothes wrinkled white sox, with a race track tip-sheet stuffed in his back pocket trying real hard to mingle unnoticed at an elegant Buddies "do" to glean inside-dope.

   1980 December 13, Mitzel, “Dale Barbre's Murder Transformed”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 21, page 13

   “I don't know what happened, but the skunks have had a very horny springtime.” “Well, that horny springtime is turning into a very stanky summer. You need to clean this up.”

   2021 April 18, Christy Stratton & Erin Wagoner, “Hoot 'N Haw” (0:29 from the start), in Bless the Harts, season 2, episode 18, spoken by Jenny Hart (Kristen Wiig)

   What happened, Sprinkles? Those Space Cuties from Space... are just too stanky! You don't smell very good, either! Well, they smell worse! We'll never defeat them! We'll never withstand the stank!

   2025, Dav Pilkey, chapter 12, in Ken Geist and Jonah Newman, editor, Dog Man: Big Jim Believes, Scholastic, →ISBN, page 190

2. slangHaving the quality called stank, i.e. jazzy, funky, good.