Sekirov Dictionary

stank

/stæŋk/

verb 9
noun 4
adjective 2
forms 5

verb9

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To stink; to smell bad.
- I just ignored him because he stanked worst than I did. — 2010
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To cause to smell bad.
- He was killing me with the jokes and he was killing everybody with his smuggled corned beef samages that stanked up the joint. — 2010
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To dam up; to block the flow of water or other liquid.
- Water-courses are stanked where they take a sharp turn, to prevent the force of the current wearing away the bank at the outside angle. — 1881
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To seal off an area of the mine in which a fire has started.
- If a gob-fire were more or less effectively stanked off, so that they had plenty of time for the work, he could quite see what a very useful adjunct cementation would be in that case. — 1917
To pack in tightly.
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To stumble or lurch.
- I put on my clean gook to-day, And went to fetch some barm,When I stanked 'pon a slaw-cripple, Down there by Hodge's farm. — 1895
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To trample.
- And then she took down the cloam from the chimbly and stanked it under her feet, so as no one shouldn't hev it after she war gone. — 1898
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To cause (the udders) to become blocked and inflamed from lack of milking.
- In cattle auctions, cows are frequently seen with “stanked udders,” when a cow is driven to market several miles along hard roads with a loaded udder, its milk is not improved for human consumption. — 1913
To surround or guard.

noun4

(slang) A stink; a foul smell.
(slang) A certain quality, especially to jazz music, which is often desirable and can be achieved by, among other things, crunchy harmonies, blue notes and groovy rhythm
(dialect, UK) Water retained by an embankment; a pool of water.
(dialect, UK) A dam or mound to stop water.

adjective2

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(slang) Foul-smelling, stinking, unclean.
- Fishy, pussy funky elevator Pissy, broke ass project elevator Old baby piss, stank ass horse, cat piss smelling funky hot ass elevator I'm not climbing no 17 flights[…] — 2002
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(no longer used) Weak; worn out.
- I am so stiff and so stank, That uneath may I stand any more — 1579

forms

stanked · stanking · stanks · more stank · most stank

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