different between ugly vs stinka

English

Alternative forms

• ougly (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English ugly, uggely, uglike, borrowed from Old Norse uggligr (“fearful, dreadful, horrible in appearance”), from uggr (“fear, apprehension, dread”) (possibly related to agg (“strife, hate”)), equivalent to ug +? -ly. Cognate with Scots ugly, uglie, Icelandic ugglegur. Meaning softened to "very unpleasant to look at" around the late 14th century, and sense of "morally offensive" attested from around 1300.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???li/
• Rhymes: -??li

Adjective

ugly (comparative uglier, superlative ugliest)

1. Displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing.
2. Displeasing to the ear or some other sense.
3. Offensive to one's sensibilities or morality.

4. (Southern US) Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome.

5. Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss.

Related terms

• ug

Synonyms

• (displeasing to the eye): hideous, homely, repulsive, unattractive, uncomely, unsightly
• (displeasing to the ear or some other sense): displeasing, repulsive, unattractive
• (offensive to one's sensibilities or morality): corrupt, immoral, vile
• See also Thesaurus:ugly

Antonyms

• (displeasing to the eye): attractive, beautiful, gorgeous, handsome, pretty, sightly
• (displeasing to the ear or some other sense): attractive, pleasing
• (offensive to one's sensibilities or morality): moral

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

ugly (countable and uncountable, plural uglies)

1. (slang, uncountable) Ugliness.
   • 2009: Lady Gaga and RedOne, "Bad Romance":

     I want your ugly / I want your disease.

2. (slang) An ugly person or thing.
3. (Britain, informal, dated) A shade for the face, projecting from a bonnet.
   • 1857, Charles Kingsley, Two Years Ago

     blue uglies

Translations

Verb

ugly (third-person singular simple present uglies, present participle uglying, simple past and past participle uglied)

1. (transitive, nonstandard) To make ugly (sometimes with up).

Anagrams

• guly

English

Noun

stinka (plural stinkas)

1. (Tyneside) Someone who smells badly, a stinker.
2. (Tyneside) Someone who is ugly or repulsive.

   How man, get off is ye propa stinka!

Anagrams

• Atkins, Tanski, astink, takins

Swedish

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *stinkwan?. Compare English stink, Dutch and German stinken.

Verb

stinka (present stinker, preterite stank, imperative stink)

1. (intransitive) To smell bad; to stink, reek
   • 1917 translation, the Bible, Exodus 7:18

   • 1917, Dan Andersson, Svarta Ballader, Tiggar-Stinas middagssång

   • 1926, Hjalmar Bergman, Farmor och Vår Herre

2. (intransitive) to give impression of foul play or dishonesty; to stink
   • 2000, Claes Arvidsson, Svenska Dagbladet - editor's column

3. (transitive in combination with verb particle ner) make something stink or smell bad
   • 1933, August Strindberg, Gustav Vasa

Usage notes

• The supine stunkit occurs occasionally, but has also been claimed not to exist.

Conjugation

Related terms

• stank

Anagrams

• ankist, inkast, kantis, kistan