Stinking
['stɪŋkɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stink
(-) a. & n. from Stink, v.
Editor: Mamie
Examples
- Mr. Bucket coolly asks as he turns his bull's-eye on a line of stinking ruins. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It left off stinking when it dried; and if Art requires these sort of sacrifices--though the girl is my own daughter--I say, let Art have them! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- How came those stinking butchers' candles in your room? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- A man will be mortified, if you tell him he has a stinking breath; though it is evidently no annoyance to himself. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
Editor: Mamie