stank

For the verb: "to stink"

Simple Past:	stank
Past Participle:	stunk

Multiple Entries:
  stank    stink  

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
stank/staŋk/

past of stink.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
stink/stɪŋk/

▶verb (past stank or stunk; past part. stunk)

• 1 have a strong unpleasant smell.

  ■ (stink a place out) informal fill a place with such a smell.

• 2 informal be contemptible or scandalous.

  ■ (stink of) be highly suggestive of (something disapproved of).

▶noun

• 1 a strong unpleasant smell.

• 2 informal a row or fuss.

– phrases
like stink informal extremely hard or intensely.

– derivatives
stinky adjective (stinkier, stinkiest) (informal).

– origin OE stincan, of W. Gmc origin; rel. to stench.