astink

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English

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Etymology

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From a- +‎ stink.

Adjective

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astink (not comparable)

  1. Stinking.
    • 1920, F. S. Flint, “Hats”, in Ira Dilworth, editor, Twentieth Century Verse: An Anthology[1], Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, published 1945, page 162:
      The earth between and beyond the lines
      Ravaged and sown with steel
      And churned with blood
      And astink with decaying men,
    • 1932, William Faulkner, chapter 16, in Light in August[2], New York: Random House:
      And the doctor’s Jezebel come running from her lustful bed, still astink with sin and fear.
    • 1950, Louis De Wohl, The Quiet Light[3], Philadelphia: Lippincott, Book 3, Chapter 15, p. 239:
      [] the Rector ordered that his room should be cleaned and all the poisons he kept there taken away. Six weeks later it was all astink again.
    • 1977, John McPhee, Coming into the Country[4], New York: Bantam, Book 3, p. 386:
      Their fish camp down the Yukon can be discouraging, too—a dirty, fetid, lightless cabin astink in aging salmon.
    • 2006, Ben Ehrenreich, chapter 2, in The Suitors,[5], New York: Counterpoint, page 13:
      Penny [] emptied her chamber pot on the rutting pairs. Astink and horrified, the girls complained,

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