stank

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To me it's kind of stank, for some reason I get this mental image of a girl laying around all day in her grey cotton leggings, not showering or anything, then that night she gets a phone call from one of her girls and she decides to throw on a Jersey dress, a keffiyeh and a jacket and head out the door in the same leggings she was hangout in.

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  1. verb A past tense of stink.

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  • And then she turned her head and looked out at all them stars for a little while more The month we spent traveling out to Jupiter passed so goddamn fast, all blurred awkward sex and blurred awkward music and J.J. all sad and serious up there on his bass, and that dumb, stank-ass Frog Heavy Gills Mmmhmhnngn sitting in on his sad-assed bassoon at least once a week. —  Asimov'sSF,July2008
  • His breath stank, and Joach had to struggle not to cringe back. —  Wit'ch's Storm
  • He stank, like all the air about this hill; dirt and gall-marks were about his neck where the edge of his armor had rubbed him raw, and the chained ankle would not bear his full weight. —  Cherryh,_C.J._-_Exiles_Gate.htm
  • Lucas had exaggerated in saying it stank, but it gave out a stale smell that Maigret knew well. —  Maigret's Revolver - Georges Simenon - 68
  • The air stank, dirt, smoke, oil, sewage, flesh, a breath from surrounding swamplands which would there have been a clean rotting but here was somehow made nasty. —  "You can't leave now," Daniel Holm told his son
 

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  1. English dial. also assibilated stanch (see stanch); from Middle English stank, stanc, staunke, stang, from Old French estang, French étang (Walloon estank, stanke) = Provencal estanc = Spanish estanque = Portuguese tanque (Middle Latin stanca), a dam to hem in water, from Latin stagnum, a pool of stagnant water: see stagnate, stagnant. Cf. stanch; also cf. tank.
  2. from stank, n., or perhaps an unassibilated form of the related verb stanch, q. v.
  3. Early modern English also stanck, stanke; from Old French estanc, tired, = Provencal estanc, still, immovable, = Italian stanco, tired; cf. Spanish estanco, = Portuguese estanque, water-tight, stanch: see stanch, staunch, a doublet of stank.
 

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