Read full poem →And on the broken pavement, here and there,
Doth many a stinking sprat and herring lie;
A brandy and tobacco shop is near,
Dictionary Entry
To have a strong bad smell.
Origin
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Common Phrases
water stinking. stinkingbreath stinkingfish stinkingsmut stinkingdrunk stinking
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Poetry examples for “stinking”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And is withal perfum'd with civet hot,
Which doth her valiant stinking breath confound,--
Yet she with these additions is no more
Read full poem →Accused was in a stinking tale
Conceived in terror of the gaol,
Read full poem →Rumble and tumble, sleek and rough,
Stinking and savoury, smug and gruff,
Take the church-road, for the bell's due chime
Read full poem →Some think fireflies pretty when they mix i' the corn and mingle,
Or thrid the stinking hemp till the stalks of it seem a-tingle.
Late August or early September, the stunning cicala is 35
Read full poem →And dish them out their bill o' fare,
Auld Scotland wants nae stinking ware
That jaups in luggies;
Read full poem →"God blast your neck!" (For days he'd had no sleep,)
"Get up and guide me through this stinking place."
Savage, he kicked a soft, unanswering heap,
Read full poem →as though I were carrying that cadaver’s head around with me on a
string, like some black, noseless balloon stinking of vinegar.
Read full poem →No your remembrance shall perish. for when your carcases
Lie stinking on the earth. the buriers shall arise from the east
And. not a bone of all the soils of Tiriel remain