Having a strong, unpleasant smell; stinking.
What is that stinky smell?
Bad, undesirable.
1991, Theresa P. Gladden, Romancing Susan, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 37, […] she walked over to the table and switched off the Walkman as she sat down. “Hey!” Nikki yelped. “That was a stinky thing to do. That was my favorite song.”
A village in Kramatorsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
A village in Poltava Raion, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine.
From Middle English stinky, stynky, equivalent to stink + -y. Compare Dutch stinkig (“stinky, foul, rotten”), German stinkig (“stinky”), Hunsrik stinkich.
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