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Definition of Stenchy
1. a. Having a stench.
Definition of Stenchy
1. Adjective. Having a stench or foul odour, malodorous. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stenchy
1. having a stench [adj STENCHIER, STENCHIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stenchy
Literary usage of Stenchy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Microscope in the Brewery and Malt-house by Charles George Matthews, Francis Edward Lott (1889)
"... fermentations, and "stenchy" fermentations. We have carefully examined yeast
accompanying cases of this kind, without detecting anything distinctly ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... he moistened the palm- leaves of which he made mats, but only poured in fresh
water upon it as it wasted, thus letting it become stenchy in the extreme. ..."
3. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1906)
"In this place are groups of rude and dismal idols. You may contribute something
for their support; then pass into the temple, a grim and stenchy place, ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1883)
"... were fairly received by the people who crowded about them, glad to pick up
any tobacco or food that was thrown to them—a very dirty and stenchy lot. ..."
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