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stinking

Parf of speech: Adjective, OED Year: 1225, OED Evaluation: vulgar.

Used as a vague epithet connoting intense disgust and contempt. Now only vulgar.

ExampleMeaning
... such foolish things as coffee breaks. In my day, if you couldn't go from your breakfast time until noon, you wasn't much of a man. If you had to stop for to...of-course we old ones know that it's just a stinking habit that had crept in. That again has helped to put the cost of everything up. Because you have a coffee break, the other fella (fellow) had a coffee break so what you're working at and what you're producing ...
Applied by way of execration to any person or thing strongly objected to.
ExampleMeaning
And Tom says, "Oh Ma," he said, "I traded a pen-knife to- to George-J," he said, "For- for the billy-goat." Well my mother says, "You're not keeping it here." She says, "That stinking little thing," she says "You get it out of here!" You-know?
Applied by way of execration to any person or thing strongly objected to.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Yeah. But the only way you could get your paper- Interviewer: Was by sticking around? Speaker: Just stick around for the year. And ah third year was a repeat of the second year. (Laughs) Interviewer: So you paid tuition to get- Speaker: And we paid tuition- full tuition to- basically for this stinking piece of paper.
Applied by way of execration to any person or thing strongly objected to.
I don't have to keep up with the Jones. I was never that type where just because you have it, I have to have it, okay. I'm not- I'm not suffering, okay. I don't have to have a new vehicle every stinking year. If you don't like what I'm driving, leave me alone.
Applied by way of execration to any person or thing strongly objected to.
... and when West-Nile hit, they were gone. There was no jays here whatsoever and I thought, "Oh geez, that's what happened to them." That's why we don't have any because they- they were- their population was decimated by the stinking virus. Well n-- nothing last year, the year be-- okay, when it first hit, sure enough I guess it was just a week ago, looked out the back window, sunny day, was three jays in the backyard and I says- I said, "Ah they're back," I says, "Oh- oh goody.
Applied by way of execration to any person or thing strongly objected to.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Were all your siblings at home when the fire happened? Speaker: Oh, sure. Oh, sitting around there, we couldn't go outside because too damn cold. Had to sit in the house and try and blea-- breathe that stinking smoke in while- until the damn thing got- smoke got out of the house, you-know.
Applied by way of execration to any person or thing strongly objected to.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: So you came back here on purpose? You wanted to? Speaker: Ah, yes. Interviewer: Yeah? Speaker: Yeah. It wasn't- (clears throat) I-mean when you- (bell rings)- after you live here ah, and you experience a few other places, you realize it's pretty stinking good here. Interviewer: Yeah? Speaker: Ah, you-know, ten minutes to the nearest golf course at half the price of the city. Interviewer: Mm. Speaker: Um, you can play hockey for next to nothing. Um, you can curl for next to nothing. Ah, people are pretty good. You can sit down with- what I r
Applied by way of execration to any person or thing strongly objected to.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: It was the day they were in Samuel-Payne's going out the goddamn laneway, I never had to feed the bastards ever again. Speaker 2: And run and try to catch them with ropes, eh? Speaker: (sighs deeply) Speaker 2: And they wouldn't come- Speaker: The stinking sons-of-bitches, they were gone. Speaker 2: Because they knew they would have to work like a bastard all day.
Applied by way of execration to any person or thing strongly objected to.
Speaker: See, we had a tractor then. Speaker 2: So you baited them with oats to catch them. Speaker: And in the-- in them days, like, a tractor was a lot more fascinating than a pair of stinking horses. Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah. Speaker: So that's my fondest memory.
Applied by way of execration to any person or thing strongly objected to.