stank

• enPR: stăngk, IPA^(key): /stæŋk/
• Rhymes: -æŋk

stank

1. simple past tense of stink

stank (not comparable)

1. (African American Vernacular, slang, derogatory) Foul-smelling, stinking, unclean.
   • 2002, Tasha C. Miller, Assout: Incoherent Thoughts and Poems of an Unemployed Black Girl (page 11)

     Fishy, pussy funky elevator / Pissy, broke ass project elevator / Old baby piss, stank ass horse, cat piss smelling funky hot ass elevator / I'm not climbing no 17 flights […]

   • 2003, Tariq Nasheed, Play or be played (page 124)

     This is why most top-notch women can't stand stank hoes. Classy women have more contempt for these women than men do.

   • 2010, R. Scott, Nine Months and a Year Later... (page 31)

     He wants my love; he wants the love from here and just what's between your stank-ass legs.

French estanc, (French étang), from Latin stagnum (“a pool”). Compare stagnant, stagnate.

stank (plural stanks)

1. (Britain, dialectal) Water retained by an embankment; a pool of water.

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   • c. 1425, Edward, Second Duke of York [i.e., Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York], “Of the Hart and His Nature”, in W[illia]m A[dolf] Baillie-Grohman and F[lorence] Baillie-Grohman, editors, The Master of Game by Edward, Second Duke of York: The Oldest English Book on Hunting, London: Chatto & Windus, published 1909, OCLC 7391857537, page 33:

     And he [the hart] fleeth then mightily and far from the hounds, that is to say he hath gone a great way from them, then he will go into the stank, and will soil therein once or twice in all the stank and then he will come out again by the same way that he went in, and then he shall ruse again the same way that he came (the length of) a bow shot or more, and then he shall ruse out of the way, for to stall or squatt to rest him, and that he doeth for he knoweth well that the hounds shall come by the fues [footing] into the stank where he was.

2. (Britain, dialectal) A dam or mound to stop water.

• stank hen, stankie

Old French estanc, or Italian stanco. See stanch (adjective).

stank (comparative more stank, superlative most stank)

1. (obsolete) weak; worn out

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Compare Swedish word, meaning "to pant".

stank (third-person singular simple present stanks, present participle stanking, simple past and past participle stanked)

1. (obsolete, Britain, dialectal) To sigh.

• tanks

Borrowed from Old French estanc.

stank m

1. pond

• IPA^(key): [ˈsd̥ɑŋˀɡ̊]

stank c (singular definite stanken, plural indefinite stanke)

1. stench

stank

1. past tense of stinke

From Middle Dutch stanc, from Old Dutch stank, from Proto-Germanic *stankwaz.

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• Rhymes: -ɑŋk

stank m (plural stanken, diminutive stankje n)

1. stench

• Rhymes: -aŋk

stank

1. First-person singular preterite of stinken.
2. Third-person singular preterite of stinken.

From Low German stank

stank m (definite singular stanken, indefinite plural stanker, definite plural stankene)

1. stench, stink

• “stank” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Low German stank

stank m (definite singular stanken, indefinite plural stankar, definite plural stankane)

1. stench, stink

• “stank” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *stankwaz, whence also Old English stenċ.

stank m

1. smell

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stank c

1. stink, stench (a bad smell)
   • 1938, Ludvig Nordström, Lort-Sverige

     Denna stank hade nämligen samma underliga egenskap som liklukt att så att säga smyga sig fram och liksom långsamt, gradvis underminera luften.

     "This stench had the same strange quality as the smell of corpses, that is so to say sneaked up on you and kind of slowly, gradually undermine the air."

stank

1. past tense of stinka.