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stinky

/ˈstɪŋki/

stinky adjective: having a strong, unpleasant smell; stinking.

Adjective

stinky (comparative stinkier or more stinky, superlative stinkiest or most stinky)

  1. Having a strong, unpleasant smell; stinking.
    • What is that stinky smell?
  2. (informal) Bad, undesirable.
    • […] she walked over to the table and switched off the Walkman as she sat down.
      “Hey!” Nikki yelped. “That was a stinky thing to do. That was my favorite song.”1991, Theresa P. Gladden, Romancing Susan, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 37
    • “School all year round.” The father groaned. “What a good idea.”
      “Stupid, stinky idea,” a child remarked from across the room.2003, Betty Levin, Shoddy Cove, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 151

Noun

stinky (plural stinkies)

  1. (childish) A bowel movement; feces or diarrhoea

Proper noun capitalized: Stinky

Stinky

  1. A village in Kramatorsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
  2. A village in Poltava Raion, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine.

stinky meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Tagalog and Arabic

stinky in Tamil

தீ மணம்

stinky in Urdu

stinky, smelly; reeking
بد بودار bad-būdār

stinky in Tagalog

having a strong, unpleasant smell
mabaho

stinky in Arabic

having a strong, unpleasant smell
نَتِن natin, مُنْتِن muntin
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stinky in Thai
เหม็น měn
stinky in Vietnamese
hôi, thối, thúi

Examples of stinky in a sentence

  • I am a misocapnist, particularly when someone is using stinky tobacco with nepheligenous results.
  • Parsons bent down to pick the stinky baby brained adult diaper girl up.
  • Sammy's stinky!” Brady pushed to his feet, waving a balled-up diaper before heading toward the kitchen.

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Synonyms of stinky

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Forms of stinky

Adjective
comparativestinkier
comparativemore stinky
superlativestinkiest
superlativemost stinky
alternative formstonky
alternative form (humorous)stimky
Noun
pluralstinkies

Origin of stinky

From Middle English stinky, stynky, equivalent to stink + -y. Compare Dutch stinkig (“stinky, foul, rotten”), Low German stinkig (“stinking, stinky”), German stinkig (“stinky”), Hunsrik stinkich. Compare also Saterland Frisian stjunkerch (“stinky”), West Frisian stjonkerich (“stinky”).

Transliteration of Ukrainian Стінки (Stinky). Related to Ukrainian сті́нка (stínka, “wall, side”)

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Questions about stinky

What does stinky mean?
Stinky means having a strong, unpleasant smell; stinking.
What is stinky in Tamil?
Stinky in Tamil is தீ மணம். See Stinky meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is stinky?
Stinky can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce stinky?
Stinky is pronounced /ˈstɪŋki/.

Words near stinky in the dictionary

  1. stinkweed
  2. stinkweeds
  3. stinkwood
  4. stinkwoods
  5. stinkwort
  6. stinky
  7. stinky bean
  8. stinky beans
  9. stinky pinkies
  10. stinky pinky
  11. stinky squid

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: stinky (page history and authors); Stinky (page history and authors); stinky (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); بد بودار (Urdu) (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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