1 having a very strong, unpleasant smell:
I was pushed into a filthy, stinking room.
2 [onlybeforenoun] (informal, especially BrE) very bad or unpleasant:
I've got a stinking cold.
3 [onlybeforenoun] (BrE, informal) showing a lot of anger:
I wrote them a stinking letter to complain.
adverb (informal, usually disapproving) extremely:
They must be stinking rich * When this is over we're going to go out and get stinking drunk.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for stinking is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is stinking a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, stinking is tagged as adjective.
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