astink

English

Etymology

a- +‎ stink

Adjective

astink (not comparable)

1. Stinking.
   • 1920, F. S. Flint, “Hats”, in Ira Dilworth, editor, Twentieth Century Verse: An Anthology‎^[1], Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, published 1945, page 162:

     The earth between and beyond the lines
     Ravaged and sown with steel
     And churned with blood
     And astink with decaying men,

   • 1932, William Faulkner, chapter 16, in Light in August‎^[2], New York: Random House:

     And the doctor’s Jezebel come running from her lustful bed, still astink with sin and fear.

   • 1950, Louis De Wohl, The Quiet Light‎^[3], Philadelphia: Lippincott, Book 3, Chapter 15, p. 239:

     […] the Rector ordered that his room should be cleaned and all the poisons he kept there taken away. Six weeks later it was all astink again.

   • 1977, John McPhee, Coming into the Country‎^[4], New York: Bantam, Book 3, p. 386:

     Their fish camp down the Yukon can be discouraging, too—a dirty, fetid, lightless cabin astink in aging salmon.

   • 2006, Ben Ehrenreich, chapter 2, in The Suitors,‎^[5], New York: Counterpoint, page 13:

     Penny […] emptied her chamber pot on the rutting pairs. Astink and horrified, the girls complained,

Anagrams

• Atkins, Tanski, stinka, takins