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# stinky

«stinky» in Mova's school dictionary: **smelling very bad** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (stinky, stinkier, stinkiest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (informal) Stinky means smelling very bad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stinky/#m1)

2) (informal, children's talk) Stinky can mean nasty or unfair, as in «a stinky trick». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stinky/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Children use it a lot in everyday talk: stinky socks, stinky cheese, stinky bin. In science lessons smelly things often contain sulphur compounds or are rotting because of bacteria. In stories it gives a funny, rude-but-not-swearing tone. Phrases: stinky feet, stinky socks, stinky cheese.

### examples

- Take off those stinky trainers! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stinky/#x1)
- The bin was stinky after a hot weekend. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stinky/#x2)
- The stinky cheese made Dad hold his nose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stinky/#x3)
- Skunks spray a stinky liquid when they are scared. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stinky/#x4)
- My little brother called me «stinky pants». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stinky/#x5)
- That was a stinky trick to play on your friend. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stinky/#x6)
- The stinkiest flower in the world smells like rotting meat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stinky/#x7)

### note

Informal: in school writing use «smelly» or «foul-smelling». Comparative stinkier, stinkiest. Calling someone «stinky» can hurt their feelings.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «stinky» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stinky/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.