different between stink vs effluvium

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

English

Etymology

From Latin effluvium (“an outlet”), from efflu? (“flow out or away”), from ex (“out of, from”) + flu? (“flow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??flu?vi.?m/
• Rhymes: -u?vi?m
• Hyphenation: ef?flu?vi?um

Noun

effluvium (plural effluvia or effluviums)

1. A gaseous or vaporous emission, especially a foul-smelling one.
   • 1906, O. Henry, The Furnished Room

     And he breathed the breath of the house—a dank savour rather than a smell—a cold, musty effluvium as from underground vaults mingled with the reeking exhalations of linoleum and mildewed and rotten woodwork.

2. A condition causing the shedding of hair.

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From efflu? (“flow out or away”), from ex (“out of, from”) + flu? (“flow”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ef?flu.u?i.um/, [?f?f???u?i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ef?flu.vi.um/, [?f?flu?vium]

Noun

effluvium n (genitive effluvi? or effluv?); second declension

1. The act of flowing out; discharge of liquid, outlet, efflux.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Synonyms

• (act of flowing out): effluus

Related terms

• efflu?sc?
• efflu?
• effluus

Descendants

References

• effluvium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• effluvium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• effluvium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette