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stank | stark |

In obsolete terms the difference between stank and stark

is that stank is weak; worn out while stark is hard, firm; obdurate.

As verbs the difference between stank and stark

is that stank is simple past of stink while stark is to stiffen.

As adjectives the difference between stank and stark

is that stank is foul-smelling, stinking, unclean while stark is hard, firm; obdurate.

As a noun stank

is water retained by an embankment; a pool of water.

As an adverb stark is

starkly; entirely, absolutely.

As a proper noun Stark is

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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)

    stark

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) stark, starc, from (etyl) stearc, . Related to (l). Modifying naked , an alternation of original .

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (obsolete) Hard, firm; obdurate.
  • Severe; violent; fierce (now usually in describing the weather).
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=The climate of Tibet: Pole-land
  • , date=2013-05-11, volume=407, issue=8835, page=80 , magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest . It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.}}
  • (rare) Strong; vigorous; powerful.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • a stark , moss-trooping Scot
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
  • Stark beer, boy, stout and strong beer.
  • Stiff, rigid.
  • * Spenser
  • Whose senses all were straight benumbed and stark .
  • * Shakespeare
  • Many a nobleman lies stark and stiff / Under the hoofs of vaunting enemies.
  • * Ben Jonson
  • The north is not so stark and cold.
  • Hard in appearance; barren, desolate.
  • I picked my way forlornly through the stark , sharp rocks.
  • Complete, absolute, full.
  • I screamed in stark terror.
    A flower was growing, in stark contrast, out of the sidewalk.
  • * Ben Jonson
  • Consider the stark security / The common wealth is in now.
  • * Collier
  • He pronounces the citation stark nonsense.
  • * Selden
  • Rhetoric is very good or stark naught; there's no medium in rhetoric.
    Derived terms
    * (l)

    Adverb

    (-)
  • starkly; entirely, absolutely
  • He's gone stark , staring mad.
    She was just standing there, stark naked.
  • * Fuller
  • held him strangled in his arms till he was stark dead.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
  • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=4 citation , passage=“… That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh. Her own father recognised it when he bereft her of all power in the great business he founded. …”}}
    Usage notes
    In standard modern English, the adverb is essentially restricted to stark naked'' and phrases meaning "crazy" on the pattern of ''stark raving mad .

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) starken, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete, or, dialect) To stiffen.
  • Anagrams

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