stinking

Meanings

Adjective

• Having a pungent smell.
• Very bad and undesirable.

Verb

• Present participle of stink

Noun

• The emission of a foul smell.

Origin

• From Middle English stynkynge, stinkinge, stinkinde, stinkende, stynkande, stynkand, from Old English stincende, from Proto-Germanic *stinkwandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *stinkwaną, equivalent to stink + -ing. Cognate with Dutch stinkend, German stinkend, Danish stinkende, Norwegian stinkende.
• From Middle English stinkinge, stynkynge, equivalent to stink + -ing.