2. Verb. (third-person singular of stink) ¹
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Definition of Stinks
1. stink [v] - See also: stink
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stinks
Literary usage of Stinks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"... lotus ut hircus olet, he is a rammy fulsome fellow, a goblin-faced fellow, he
smells, he stinks, Et cepas simid ..."
2. A Journal Or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, Christian by George Fox, William Penn, Margaret Askew Fell Fox (1839)
"O Derby! thy profession and preaching ' stinks before the Lord. You profess a
sabbath in words, ... stinks ..."
3. The Anatomy of melancholy v. 3 by Robert Burton (1875)
"... he is a rammy fulsome fellow, a goblin-faced fellow, he smells, he stinks, Et
cepas simul ... stinks ..."
4. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"THE PROBLEM, THAT MY LORD BERKELEY stinks, WHEN HE II IX ion. DID ever problem
thus perplex, Or more employ, the female sex ? So sweet a passion, ..."
5. The Church History of Britain: From the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, John Sherren Brewer (1845)
"... otherwise most dangerous are the smells of man's flesh, or sweat putrified;
for they are not those stinks, which the nostrils straight abhor and expel, ..."
6. The Church History of Britain: From the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, John Sherren Brewer (1845)
"... otherwise most dangerous are the smells of man's flesh, or sweat putrified;
for they are not those stinks, which the nostrils straight abhor and expel, ..."
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