stinking

comparative more stinking · superlative most stinking

1. Having a pungent smell.
2. Very bad and undesirable.

   I have a stinking cold.

3. slangVery drunk.

   Oh, I got stinking—and, worse, acted like the world's worst heel to top it off. I passed out mentally about the time we left the club—which must have been around 2:30—but unfortunately didn't pass out physically.

   2021, Mack Morriss, South Pacific Diary, 1942-1943

4. euphemisticAn intensifier, a hypallage.

   We don’t need your stinking sympathy.

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   “Everyone shut up! Lord ThunderSteel commands it! I am your leader! I have this badge that says so!” “We don’t need no stinking badges!”

   2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “Kinksters and kinksterettes—Who are these people, anyway?” (chapter 1), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, page 27

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of stink

plural stinkings

1. The emission of a foul smell.

   From the magnificent ejaculation of the Waimangu geyser, to the tiniest of gaseous emissions, descriptions of the thermal reserve were rife with dischargings, bubblings and stinkings, quiverings and palpitations, orifices and protuberances.

   2013, Phaedra. C Pezzullo, Cultural Studies and Environment, Revisited, page 42