stinking

stinking
stinkingly, adv.stinkingness, n.
/sting"king/, adj.
1. foul-smelling.
2. Slang. very drunk; plastered.
3. Slang. very rich: His father left him so much money he's stinking.
4. contemptible; disgusting: a stinking shame.
adv.
5. completely or extremely: stinking drunk.
[bef. 1000; ME stinkinge, OE stincende. See STINK, -ING2]
Syn. 1. smelly, putrid, rotten, putrescent, foul, miasmal, rank.

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