Word.ws English Dictionary

stinking up

stinking up is the present participle and gerund of stink up.

Meaning of stink up

Verb

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

  1. (informal, transitive) To cause to stink.
    • The broccoli really stank up the refrigerator.
  2. (figuratively, informal, transitive) To perform very badly in (a place).
    • That's what the Bengals did again Sunday, when, in Wilkinson's words, they "stunk up the joint" in a 31-14 loss to the New York Jets at Cinergy Field.1997 September 29, “BENGALS `STUNK UP THE JOINT'”, in Dayton Daily News

Questions about stinking up

What is stinking up the present participle and gerund of?
Stinking up is the present participle and gerund of stink up.

Words near stinking up in the dictionary

  1. stinking sumac
  2. stinking sumacs
  3. stinking to high heaven
  4. stinking toe
  5. stinking toes
  6. stinking up
  7. stinking willie
  8. stinking willy
  9. stinkingly
  10. stinkingness
  11. stinkings

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: stinking up (page history and authors); stink up (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “stinking up.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/stinking_up. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.