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stinkingness

noun

Etymology

From stinking + -ness.

  1. derived from *stinkwaną✻ — “to stink”
  2. inherited from *stinkwandz✻ — “stinking”
  3. inherited from stincende
  4. inherited from stynkynge
  5. suffixed as stinkingness — “stinking + ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being stinking.

    • Its sweetness cuts the gall-bitter taste of defeat which, to the palate, is as the stinkingness to the nose of the pus-running wounds of soldiers.
    • Whenever I feel really depressed about the stinkingness of politics, I take a dive into Fleet Street and see what stinkingness really is.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA