stink : Idioms & Phrases

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Fire stink

  • the stench from decomposing iron pyrites, caused by the formation of sulphureted hydrogen. Raymond.
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make a stink

  • verb take strong and forceful action, as to object or express discontent
    raise hell; make a stink.
    • She raised hell when she found out that she wold not be hired again
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raise a stink

  • verb take strong and forceful action, as to object or express discontent
    raise hell; make a stink.
    • She raised hell when she found out that she wold not be hired again
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stink bell

  • noun a malodorous California herb with bell-shaped flowers; a common weed in grainfields
    Fritillaria agrestis.
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stink bomb

  • noun a small bomb designed to give off a foul odor when it explodes
    stench bomb.
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stink fly

  • noun pale green unpleasant-smelling lacewing fly having carnivorous larvae
    chrysopid; green lacewing.
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stink out

  • verb cause to smell bad; fill with a bad smell
    smell up; stink out.
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Stink rat

  • (Zoöl.), the musk turtle. Local, U.S.
Webster 1913

Stink shad

  • (Zoöl.), the gizzard shad. Local, U.S.
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Stink trap

  • a stench trap. See under Stench.
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stink up

  • verb cause to smell bad; fill with a bad smell
    smell up; stink out.
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Stink-fire lance

  • . See under Lance.
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stinking bean trefoil

  • noun shrub with trifoliate leaves and yellow flowers followed by backward curving seed pods; leaves foetid when crushed
    bean trefoil; Anagyris foetida.
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stinking cedar

  • noun rare small evergreen of northern Florida; its glossy green leaves have an unpleasant fetid smell when crushed
    stinking cedar; Torrey tree; Torreya taxifolia.
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stinking chamomile

  • noun widespread rank-smelling weed having white-rayed flower heads with yellow discs
    stinking chamomile; mayweed; Anthemis cotula; dog fennel.
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stinking clover

  • noun plant of western North America having trifoliate leaves and white or pink spider-shaped flowers; sometimes used as an ornamental
    Rocky Mountain bee plant; Cleome serrulata.
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stinking elder

  • noun common North American shrub or small tree
    American red elder; Sambucus pubens; red-berried elder.
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stinking gladwyn

  • noun iris with purple flowers and foul-smelling leaves; southern and western Europe and North Africa
    gladdon iris; roast beef plant; stinking gladwyn; Iris foetidissima; gladdon.
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stinking goosefoot

  • noun European goosefoot with strong-scented foliage; adventive in eastern North America
    Chenopodium vulvaria.
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stinking hellebore

  • noun digitate-leaved hellebore with an offensive odor and irritant qualities when taken internally
    bear's foot; Helleborus foetidus; setterwort.
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stinking horehound

  • noun ill-smelling European herb with rugose leaves and whorls of dark purple flowers
    black archangel; Ballota nigra; black horehound; fetid horehound.
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stinking iris

  • noun iris with purple flowers and foul-smelling leaves; southern and western Europe and North Africa
    gladdon iris; roast beef plant; stinking gladwyn; Iris foetidissima; gladdon.
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stinking mayweed

  • noun widespread rank-smelling weed having white-rayed flower heads with yellow discs
    stinking chamomile; mayweed; Anthemis cotula; dog fennel.
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stinking nightshade

  • noun poisonous fetid Old World herb having sticky hairy leaves and yellow-brown flowers; yields hyoscyamine and scopolamine
    henbane; black henbane; Hyoscyamus niger.
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stinking smut

  • noun disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains with greasy masses of smelly smut spores
    bunt.
  • noun similar to Tilletia caries
    Tilletia foetida; bunt.
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stinking wattle

  • noun scrubby Australian acacia having extremely foul-smelling blossoms
    Acacia cambegei; gidgee.
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stinking weed

  • noun very leafy malodorous tropical weedy shrub whose seeds have been used as an adulterant for coffee; sometimes classified in genus Cassia
    Senna occidentalis; styptic weed; mogdad coffee; Cassia occidentalis; coffee senna.
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stinking yew

  • noun rare small evergreen of northern Florida; its glossy green leaves have an unpleasant fetid smell when crushed
    stinking cedar; Torrey tree; Torreya taxifolia.
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