Stank vs Stalk - What's the difference?
stank | stalk |
(stink)
(AAVE, slang, derogatory) Foul-smelling, stinking, unclean.
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* 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.
The stem or main axis of a plant, which supports the seed-carrying parts.
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*:Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, withon one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant.
Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.
:(Grew)
(lb) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
:(Chaucer)
(label)
#A stem or peduncle, as in certain barnacles and crinoids.
#The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
#The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
(lb) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
(lb) To approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer.
*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
*:As for shooting a man from behind a wall, it is cruelly like to stalking a deer.
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*:But they had already discovered that he could be bullied, and they had it their own way; and presently Selwyn lay prone upon the nursery floor, impersonating a ladrone while pleasant shivers chased themselves over Drina, whom he was stalking .
(lb) To (try to) follow or contact someone constantly, often resulting in harassment.(w)
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(lb) To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:[Bertran] stalks close behind her, like a witch's fiend, / Pressing to be employed.
:(Shakespeare)
(lb) To walk behind something, such as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under cover.
*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
*:The king"I must stalk ," said he.
*(Michael Drayton) (1563-1631)
*:One underneath his horse, to get a shoot doth stalk .
A particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone.
A hunt (of a wild animal).
To walk haughtily.
* Dryden
* Addison
* Mericale
As verbs the difference between stank and stalk
is that stank is (stink) or stank can be (obsolete|uk|dialect) to sigh while stalk is (lb) to approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer or stalk can be to walk haughtily.As nouns the difference between stank and stalk
is that stank is (uk|dialect) water retained by an embankment; a pool of water while stalk is the stem or main axis of a plant, which supports the seed-carrying parts or stalk can be a particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone.As an adjective stank
is (aave|slang|derogatory) foul-smelling, stinking, unclean or stank can be (obsolete) weak; worn out.stank
English
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)
Derived terms
* stank hen, stankieEtymology 3
(etyl) estanc, or (etyl) stanco. See stanch (adjective).Etymology 4
Compare Swedish word, meaning "to pant".Anagrams
* English irregular simple past forms ----stalk
English
(wikipedia stalk)Etymology 1
From (etyl) stalke, diminutive of stale'' 'ladder upright, stalk', from (etyl) stalu 'wooden upright', from (etyl) ).Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) stalken, from (etyl) -).Robert K. Barnhart and Sol Steinmetz, eds., ''Chambers Dictionary of Etymology , s.v. "stalk2" (New York: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd., 2006), 1057. Alternate etymology connects (etyl) 'to steal'.Verb
(en verb)Conjugation
(en-conj-simple)Noun
(en noun)References
Etymology 3
1530, 'to walk haughtily', perhaps from (etyl) 'high, lofty, steep, stiff'; see aboveVerb
(en verb)- With manly mien he stalked along the ground.
- Then stalking through the deep, / He fords the ocean.
- I forbear myself from entering the lists in which he has long stalked alone and unchallenged.