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Definition: STANK |
STANK1. Of Stink Adjective1. Weak; worn out. Imperative1. Stunk. Intransitive verb1. To sigh. Noun1. A dam or mound to stop water. 2. Water retained by an embankment; a pool water. |
Date "STANK" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A. To make watertight; to seal off; an airtight and watertight wall against old mine workings. See also:seal; sealed-off area b. A small cofferdam constructed of timber and made watertight with clay. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: STANK |
| English words defined with "STANK": seamy, seedy, sleazy, sordid, squalid. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "STANK": Tank. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "STANK" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (stench), German (reeked, stung), Swedish (fetidness, fetor, foulness, fume, funk, reek, stank, stench, stink, stunk). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | What a terrible stank! (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; writing credit: Marty Eisenberg) He stank like a man. The way men stink (Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant, Die; writing credit: Rainer Werner Fassbinder) | |
Lyrics | Any stank puss make my long john pause (Southern Hospitality; performing artist: Ludacris) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Andy Rooney | Let me begin tonight by saying, as nice and sweet as I know how, that I thought last Tuesday's debate between Al Gore and George Bush stank. It was about as exciting as synchronized swimming at the Olympics. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "STANK" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 98.98% of the time. "STANK" is used about 98 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 98.98% | 97 | 33,269 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 1.02% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 98 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "STANK" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Stank | Last name | 170 | 45,310 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "STANK": stank hen. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
stank | 120 |
dr stank | 7 |
pussy stank | 4 |
ho stank | 3 |
hooba stank | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "STANK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | نفث رائحة كريهة, نتن (fetid, fetor, foetid, malodorous, mephitis, rancid, rotten, stagnant, stink, stinky). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вонящ (foxy, odoriferous, rammish, rank, smelling, smelly, stinking). (various references) | |
Chinese | 发恶臭 (stinking, Stunk). (various references) | |
Czech | min.èas od stink. (various references) | |
Danish | skank (front leg, knuckle, knuckle of pork). (various references) | |
Farsi | مخزن (Bomb, Cache, Depository, Fountain, Magazine, Repertory, Repository, Reservoir, Storage, Store, Storehouse, Sump, Tank, Thesaurus, Warehouse), سد (Barrier, Dam, Dike, Pile, Sluice, Stoppage), استخر (Lake, Pool, Swag). (various references) | |
French | pied avant, jambonneau, jambon de devant, étang, égout. (various references) | |
German | stanken, Eisbein (front leg, knuckle, knuckle of pork), Dickbein (front leg, knuckle, knuckle of pork). (various references) | |
Greek | αόρ. του stink (stunk). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tó (lake, Loch, lough, mere, pool), pocsolya (dub, mere, mire, pond, pool, puddle, slop, slough, sump, wallow), büdös (effing, feculent, fetid, foetid, foul, frowsty, malodorous, nifty, Olid, smelly, stenchy, stinker, stinking, stinky, stunk, to stink, whiffy), bűzlik (stunk, to reek, to stink). (various references) | |
Italian | puzzare (pong, reek, smell, smell bad, stink). (various references) | |
Korean | 악취가 났다. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ankstay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tresandar (reek, stink, stinking), feder (fume, stink), empestear (stink), cheirar mal (reek, smell, stink). (various references) | |
Romanian | trecut de la stink. (various references) | |
Russian | вонять (reek, stinks, stunk). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | proš. vreme od stink, jezerce (lakelet, pond). (various references) | |
Spanish | pret de stink, fétido (fetid, foetid, foul, noisome, stinking). (various references) | |
Swedish | stinkte, stinkt, stank (fetidness, fetor, foulness, fume, funk, reek, stench, stink, stunk). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | стічна канава (channel, dike), ставок (basin, mere, pond, pound, water hole), котлован (scoop), загачувати (bank, barrage, bay, impound, jam, pond). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | l m toáng lên (stink, stunk). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Exodus Chapter 8, Verse 14 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Epoihsan de wsautwV kai oi epaoidoi taiV farmakeiaiV autwn exagagein ton sknifa kai ouk hdunanto kai egenonto oi sknifeV en toiV anqrwpoiV kai en toiV tetraposin |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Congregaveruntque eas in inmensos aggeres et conputruit terra |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And thei gedered hem togidere into greet heepes withouten noumbre, and the erthe stonke. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And they gathred them to gether vppon heppes: so that the lande stanke of them. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And they gathered them into heaps: and the land was offensive in smell. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And they put them together in masses, and a bad smell went up from the land. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Exodus Chapter 8, Verse 14 |
| Chinese | 眾 人 把 ' 蛙 聚 " 成 、 遍 地 就 都 腥 臭 。 |
| Croatian | Vraèari pokušaše da svojim vraèanjem stvore komarce, ali nisu mogli. Ljudi i životinje postanu plijenom komaraca. |
| Danish | og man samlede dem sammen i Dynger, så Landet kom til at stinke deraf. |
| Dutch | En zij vergaderden ze samen bij hopen, en het land stonk. |
| Finnish | Ja he kokosivat niitä läjittäin, ja maa rupesi haisemaan. |
| German | Und sie häuften sie zusammen, hier einen Haufen und da einen Haufen, und das Land stank davon. |
| Haitian Creole | Moun peyi Lejip yo ranmase yo fè gwo pil. Toupatou nan peyi a te santi move ak krapo mouri yo. |
| Hungarian | És rakásokba gyûjték azokat össze és a föld megbüszhödék. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Orang Mesir mengumpulkan bangkai katak-katak itu sampai bertimbun-timbun, sehingga seluruh negeri berbau busuk. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka dikumpulkan oranglah akan bangkainya bertimbun-timbun, sehingga busuklah bau negeri itu. |
| Italian | I maghi fecero la stessa cosa con le loro magie, per produrre zanzare, ma non riuscirono e le zanzare infierivano sugli uomini e sulle bestie. |
| Korean | 사 람 " 이 모 아 무 " 기 로 " 으 니 땅 에 서 악 취 가 나 " 라 |
| Maori | A apoapohia ana e ratou, puranga atu, puranga atu: a, piro ana te whenua. |
| Norwegian | og de samlet dem i dyngevis, og landet blev fylt med stank. |
| Portuguese | E ajuntaram-nas em montes, e a terra, cheirou mal. |
| Rumanian | Le-au strkns grqmezi, wi yara s`a kmpuyit. |
| Russian | Й УП'ТБМЙ ЙИ Ч ЗТХ"Щ, Й ЧПУУНЕТ"ЕМБ ЪЕНМС. |
| Spanish | Las juntaron en muchos montones, y la tierra apestaba. |
| Swedish | Och man kastade dem tillsammans i högar, här en och där en; och landet uppfylldes av stank. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "STANK": stanks. (additional references) | |
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"STANK" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: astano, sanko, Satank, scank, Settani, Settanni, skank, srank, staan, stak, stan, stana, stanks, stanky, steenk, Stenka, stinc, stinkl, stonk, Stranka, Stransky, tsink. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "STANK" (pronounced sta"ngk) |
| 4 | -t a" ng k | antitank, tank. |
| 3 | -a" ng k | bank, blank, brank, clank, crank, dank, drank, flank, franc, Frank, Hank, interbank, lank, nonbank, plank, prank, rank, sank, shank, shrank, spank, swank, thank, yank. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: tanks. | |
| Words within the letters "a-k-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: ants, kats, sank, skat, tank, tans, task. | |
-2 letters: ant, ask, kas, kat, sat, ska, tan, tas, tsk. | |
-3 letters: an, as, at, ka, na, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-k-n-s-t" | |
+1 letter: askant, stanks, takins, tankas, thanks, tranks. | |
+2 letters: anklets, anticks, catkins, dankest, intakes, kaftans, kainits, kantars, kations, lankest, rankest, skating, staking, takings, tankers, tanukis, tasking, unstack, untacks. | |
+3 letters: alkanets, antimask, antiskid, beatniks, bethanks, blankest, blankets, crankest, cutbanks, frankest, goatskin, inkstand, kainites, kanteles, kartings, katcinas, keratins, khanates, kyanites, lankiest, mistaken, muntjaks, nakedest, nunataks, outranks, ratfinks, skatings, snakebit, snakiest, stacking, stalking, stickman, stinkard, stockman, stopbank, stotinka, swankest, talkings, tanbarks, tankages, tankards, tankfuls, tankship, thankers, twankies, unakites, unstacks. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Quotations: Spoken 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Bible Trace 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Bibliography |
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