Read full poem →withdrawn from school. I went to bed and my parents covered me with
ointments. There was a brown salve that stank. My father preferred that
one for me. It burned. He insisted that I keep it on longer, much longer
Dictionary Entry
To have a strong bad smell.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. stankstank placestank airstank roomstank breath
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Poetry examples for “stank”
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Read full poem →Sae hale and hearty every shank!
Nae poison’d soor Arminian stank
He let them taste;
Read full poem →As e’er tread yird;
An’ could hae flown out-owre a stank,
Like ony bird.
Read full poem →Choked up the steps too thick with clay to climb.
What murk of air remained stank old, and sour
With fumes of whizz-bangs, and the smell of men