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stink on ice

stink on ice verb: to be of very poor quality, even repulsive.

Verb

stink on ice (third-person singular simple present stinks on ice, present participle stinking on ice, simple past stank on ice, past participle stunk on ice)

  1. (colloquial, idiomatic) To be of very poor quality, even repulsive.

stink on ice meaning in Bengali

stink on ice in Bengali

খুবই নিম্নমানের হওয়া, এমনকি বিরক্তিকর

Forms of stink on ice

third-person singular presentstinks on ice
present participlestinking on ice
paststank on ice
past participlestunk on ice

Origin of stink on ice

From the notion that if organic matter smells bad even when on ice then it must be truly rotten.

Questions about stink on ice

What does stink on ice mean?
Stink on ice means to be of very poor quality, even repulsive.
What is stink on ice in Bengali?
Stink on ice in Bengali is খুবই নিম্নমানের হওয়া, এমনকি বিরক্তিকর. See Stink on ice meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is stink on ice?
Stink on ice is a verb.
What is the past tense of stink on ice?
The past tense of stink on ice is stank on ice.

Words near stink on ice in the dictionary

  1. stink like a mackerel in the moonlight
  2. stink like a mackerel in the sun
  3. stink like a polecat
  4. stink line
  5. stink lines
  6. stink on ice
  7. stink out
  8. stink pretty
  9. stink the joint out
  10. stink to high heaven
  11. stink trap

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stink on ice (page history and authors); stink on ice (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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