stank 1 of 2

British dialect
as in puddle
a small often deep body of water the Scottish innkeeper advised swimming in the nearby stank only if the prospect of hypothermia seemed appealing

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stank

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verb

variants or stunk
past tense of stink
1
as in smelled
to give off an extremely unpleasant smell the dog stinks because she tangled with a skunk again

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2
as in sucked
to be objectionable or unsatisfactory their team really stinks this year

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Noun
  • The myriad indignities of winter now seem too much to bear—the slushy puddles, the numb fingers, that frigid first step out of the shower—all of it interminable, day after dreary day.
    Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 15 Feb. 2025
  • The Baltimore-area healthcare professional briefly dipped her toe back into the media puddle to watch President Jimmy Carter’s funeral, but quickly returned to limited consumption of the news.
    Philip Elliott, TIME, 18 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Officers patrolling on an upper level of the subway station then smelled and saw smoke, and went to investigate, according to Tisch.
    Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Officers on a routine patrol at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue subway station smelled and saw smoke and discovered the woman on fire, standing in the middle of the subway car.
    Susan Haigh, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • If Rowan sucked at her job, she’d be fired.
    Emma Aerin Becker, People.com, 25 Dec. 2024
  • Liverpool need to play a smart game and not get sucked into a frantic contest like United did.
    Oli Gamp, The Athletic, 22 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Her mint-green house in Frade, a gated condominium on the bay, served as a base for the expedition, whose members would relax around a table near a pool and a tree with fuchsia blossoms.
    Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Limiting the pool to those who were under 25 and didn’t step to the plate 350 times last year costs us someone like Wyatt Langford, but still leaves us a smorgasbord of young talent, all above-average across the league in our four-stat score.
    Eno Sarris, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025
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“Stank.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stank. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.

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