different between bouquet vs stink

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French bouquet. Doublet of bosket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bo??ke?/, /bu?ke?/
• Rhymes: -e?

Noun

bouquet (plural bouquets)

1. A bunch of cut flowers.

2. The scent of a particular wine.

3. The heart note of a perfume.

4. A compliment or expression of praise.
5. (mathematics) A bouquet of circles.
6. (card games) The reserve of cards in the game of Flower Garden and variations.
7. (cartomancy) The ninth Lenormand card, sometimes called Flowers instead.

Derived terms

• bouquet of circles, bouquet of spheres, bouquets and brickbats

Translations

See also

• bouquet garni
• nosegay
• corsage
• posy

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French bouquet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buk?/, [b?u?k??] or IPA^(key): /buke/, [b?u?k?e]

Noun

bouquet c (singular definite bouqueten or bouquet'en, not used in plural form)

1. bouquet (scent of wine)

Related terms

• buket

Further reading

• “bouquet” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From Old French bochet, from bois (“woods”), from Medieval Latin boscus (“grove”), from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, thicket”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *b?uH- (“to grow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu.k?/

Noun

bouquet m (plural bouquets)

1. bouquet, bunch
2. a set or selection of something.
3. aroma, bouquet (scent of wine)

Derived terms

• bouquet garni

Descendants

Further reading

• “bouquet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Middle English stinken, from Old English stincan, from Proto-Germanic *stinkwan?, from Proto-Indo-European *steng?-, *steg?- (“to push, thrust, strike”). Cognate with West Frisian stjonke (“to stink”), Dutch stinken (“to stink”), German stinken (“to stink”), Danish stinke (“to stink”), Swedish stinka (“to stink”), Icelandic stökkva (“to spring, leap, jump”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: st?ngk, IPA^(key): /st??k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Verb

stink (third-person singular simple present stinks, present participle stinking, simple past stank or stunk, past participle stunk)

1. (intransitive) To have a strong bad smell.
2. (intransitive, informal) To be greatly inferior; to perform badly.

   That movie stinks. I didn't even stay for the end.
3. (intransitive) To give an impression of dishonesty or untruth.

   Something stinks about the politician's excuses.

4. (transitive) To cause to stink; to affect by a stink.

Synonyms

• (have a strong bad smell): pong, reek
• (be greatly inferior): suck, blow (both slightly vulgar)
• (give an impression of dishonesty or untruth): be fishy

Derived terms

• astink
• stink out
• stink to high heaven
• stink up
• give out stink

Translations

Noun

stink (plural stinks)

1. A strong bad smell.
2. (informal) A complaint or objection.

   If you don't make a stink about the problem, nothing will be done.

Synonyms

• (strong bad smell): fetor, odour/odor, pong, reek, smell, stench
• (informal: complaint or objection):
• (slang: chemistry):

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

stink (comparative more stink, superlative most stink)

1. (slang, New Zealand) Bad; inferior; worthless.

   The concert was stink. / That was a stink concert.

2. (Caribbean, Guyana, Jamaican) Bad-smelling, stinky.
   • 2013, Stabroek News, 19 February 2013, cited by Deborah Jan Osman Backer in a speech delivered in the National Assembly during the Budget Debate, 2013,^[1]

     Everyone is up in arms but it smells stink because it smells of racism…

   • 2014, Taureef Mohammed, “Imam recounts 55-day Venezuelan horror,” Trinidad and Tobago Guardian, 26 May, 2014,^[2]

     Spending hours in a “stink" morgue, being called “Taliban”, thinking of getting shot in the head by officers—memories of Venezuela that have left Hamza Mohammed, imam of the Montrose mosque, still trembling today.

   • 2016, Kei Miller, Augustown, New York: Pantheon, Chapter 1, p. 5,

     […] what Ma Taffy smells on this early afternoon makes her sit up straight. She smells it high and ripe and stink on the air, like a bright green jackfruit in season being pulled to the rocky ground below.

References

Anagrams

• knits, sinkt, skint, snikt, tinks

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch stinken, from Middle Dutch stinken, from Old Dutch stincan, from Proto-Germanic *stinkwan?.

Verb

stink (present stink, present participle stinkende, past participle gestink)

1. to stink

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st??k/
• Hyphenation: stink
• Rhymes: -??k

Verb

stink

1. first-person singular present indicative of stinken
2. imperative of stinken

Anagrams

• snikt

Middle English

Noun

stink

1. Alternative form of stynk

Swedish

Verb

stink

1. imperative of stinka