Shanked vs Stanked - What's the difference?
shanked | stanked |
(shank)
Having a shank.
(slang) Bad.
The part of the leg between the knee and the ankle.
* Shakespeare
Meat from that part of an animal.
A straight, narrow part of an object, such as a key or an anchor; shaft; stem.
The handle of a pair of shears, connecting the ride to the neck.
The center part of a fishhook between the eye and the hook, the 'hook' being the curved part that bends toward the point.
A protruding part of an object, by which it is or can be attached.
The metal part on a curb bit that falls below the mouthpiece of the bit, which length controls the severity of the leverage action of the bit, and to which the reins of the bridle are attached.
(sports) A poorly played golf shot in which the ball is struck by the part of the club head that connects to the shaft. See thin,fat,toe.
(slang) An improvised stabbing weapon.
Any of several species of Old World wading bird in the genus Tringa that are primarily distinguished by their brightly colored legs.
A loop forming an eye to a button.
(architecture) The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph.
(metalworking) A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it.
(printing, dated) The body of a type.
(shoemaking) The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel.
Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round.
(archaic, Ulster) to travel on foot
(slang) to stab, especially with an improvised blade
(slang) to remove another's pants, especially in jest; to depants
(transitive, chiefly, golf, football) to hit or kick the ball in an unintended direction
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=September 28
, author=Tom Rostance
, title=Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos
, work=BBC Sport
To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; usually followed by off.
(stank)
(stink)
(AAVE, slang, derogatory) Foul-smelling, stinking, unclean.
* 2002 , Tasha C. Miller, Assout: Incoherent Thoughts and Poems of an Unemployed Black Girl (page 11)
* 2003 , Tariq Nasheed, Play or be played (page 124)
* 2010 , R. Scott, Nine Months and a Year Later... (page 31)
(UK, dialect) Water retained by an embankment; a pool of water.
(UK, dialect) A dam or mound to stop water.
As verbs the difference between shanked and stanked
is that shanked is (shank) while stanked is (stank).As an adjective shanked
is having a shank.shanked
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)shank
English
Adjective
(er)Noun
(en noun)- His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide / For his shrunk shank .
- (Gwilt)
Derived terms
* greenshank * umbroshank * redshank * shank-nag * shank-weary * shankbone - the bone of the foreleg * shanks' nag * shanks' mare * shanks' pony * LongshanksVerb
(en verb)citation, page= , passage=Marouane Chamakh then spurned a great chance to kill the game off when he ran onto Andrey Arshavin's lofted through ball but shanked his shot horribly across the face of goal.}}
- (Darwin)
Anagrams
*stanked
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Verb
(head)stank
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Etymology 1
Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- Fishy, pussy funky elevator / Pissy, broke ass project elevator / Old baby piss, stank ass horse, cat piss smelling funky hot ass elevator / I'm not climbing no 17 flights
- This is why most top-notch women can't stand stank hoes. Classy women have more contempt for these women than men do.
- He wants my love; he wants the love from here and just what's between your stank -ass legs.
Etymology 2
(etyl) estanc, ((etyl) . Compare stagnant, stagnate.Noun
(en noun)- (Robert of Brunne)