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Stank vs Skank - What's the difference?

stank | skank |

As verbs the difference between stank and skank

is that stank is simple past of stink while skank is to dance the skank.

As nouns the difference between stank and skank

is that stank is water retained by an embankment; a pool of water while skank is any substance that is particularly foul, unhygienic or unpleasant.

As an adjective stank

is foul-smelling, stinking, unclean.

stank

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(head)
  • (stink)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (AAVE, slang, derogatory) Foul-smelling, stinking, unclean.
  • * 2002 , Tasha C. Miller, Assout: Incoherent Thoughts and Poems of an Unemployed Black Girl (page 11)
    • 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
  • * 2003 , Tariq Nasheed, Play or be played (page 124)
    • This is why most top-notch women can't stand stank hoes. Classy women have more contempt for these women than men do.
  • * 2010 , R. Scott, Nine Months and a Year Later... (page 31)
    • 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)
  • (UK, dialect) Water retained by an embankment; a pool of water.
    • (Robert of Brunne)
  • (UK, dialect) A dam or mound to stop water.
    • Derived terms
    * stank hen, stankie

    Etymology 3

    (etyl) estanc, or (etyl) stanco. See stanch (adjective).

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) weak; worn out
    • (Spenser)

    Etymology 4

    Compare Swedish word, meaning "to pant".

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) To sigh.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

    * English irregular simple past forms ----

    skank

    English

    Etymology 1

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any substance that is particularly foul, unhygienic or unpleasant.

    • Etymology 2

    . Middle English, meaning frolicsome and often lascivious conduct.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (pejorative, slang) A lewdly unattractive and disreputable person, often female, especially one with an air of tawdry promiscuity.
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    • Synonyms
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    Etymology 3

    Jamaican origin

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A dance performed to ska.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To dance the skank
    • Come on, skank along, it's the skanking song.

    Etymology 4

    Slang word used in Northern England (commonly used through the 1980s).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of cheating a person.
    • That's not a good deal; it's a skank .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cheat, especially a friend.
    • ''He shortchanged a partner, leaving him feeling skanked .
    Derived terms
    * skanker * skanky Jamaican English ----