astink

astink

English

Etymology

a- +‎ stink

Adjective

astink (not comparable)

1. Stinking.
   • 1920, F. S. Flint, “Hats” in Ira Dilworth (ed.), Twentieth Century Verse: An Anthology, Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1945, p. 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, Light in August, New York: Random House, Chapter 16,

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

   • 1950, Louis De Wohl, The Quiet Light, 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, 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, The Suitors, New York: Counterpoint, Chapter 2, p. 13,

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

Anagrams

• Atkins, Tanski, stinka, takins