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Wiktionary

  1. stankadjective

    Foul-smelling, stinking, unclean.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Stankadjective

    Weak; worn out.

    Diggon, I am so stiff and so stank,
    That unneth I may stand any more,
    And how the western wind bloweth sore,
    Beating the withered leaf from the tree. Edmund Spenser.

  2. Stankthe preterite of stink.

    The fish in the river died, and the river stank. Exod. vii.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Stankadjective

    weak; worn out

  2. Stankverb

    to sigh

  3. Stank

    stunk

  4. Stanknoun

    water retained by an embankment; a pool water

  5. Stanknoun

    a dam or mound to stop water

  6. Stank

    of Stink

  7. Etymology: [OF. estang, F. tang, from L. stagnum a pool. Cf. Stagnate, Tank a cistern.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Stank

    stangk, pa.t. of stink.

  2. Stank

    stangk, n. (Scot.) a ditch, a pool, a tank. [O. Fr. estang, a pond—L. stagnum, a stagnant pool.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. stank

    An old statute term for staunch (which see).

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. STANK

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Stank is ranked #55619 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Stank surname appeared 369 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Stank.

    98.6% or 364 total occurrences were White.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Stank in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Stank in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of Stank in a Sentence

  1. Judith Flanders:

    The names of the pubs stank. The names of the pubs were dreadful, (They) sounded like cheap 1990s wine bars. We really worked on the names of the pubs (from a published list of names from the 1850s).

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