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Definition of Stink out
1. Verb. Cause to smell bad; fill with a bad smell.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stink Out
Literary usage of Stink out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American System: Speeches on the Tariff Question, and on Internal by Andrew Stewart (1872)
"... look out for treasury notes; when they say 54° 40' or fight, look for " stink
out," and 49; when they say no conquest, look out for all of Mexico. ..."
2. Metrical Romances of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Centuries by Henry William Weber, Weber, Henry William, 1783-1818 (1810)
"Thanne cometh a roke (A) and a stink Out of the water, vnder the brink, That men
therof taketh the feuere, That neuer afier iimi he ..."
3. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1900)
"That must be about six teet. She's bung in the middle of King's big upper ten-bedder.
Eligible central situation, / call it. She'll stink out his chaps, ..."
4. English Folk-rhymes: A Collection of Traditional Verses Relating to Places by G. F. Northall (1892)
"AP. 572. So out goes she." Derbys. AH. i. 384. Ink, pink, pen, and ink, I, stole,
study, stink, OUT spells out. Ellesmere, Shrops. ..."
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