Stank vs Stark - What's the difference?
stank | stark |
(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.
(obsolete) Hard, firm; obdurate.
Severe; violent; fierce (now usually in describing the weather).
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(rare) Strong; vigorous; powerful.
* Sir Walter Scott
* Beaumont and Fletcher
Stiff, rigid.
* Spenser
* Shakespeare
* Ben Jonson
Hard in appearance; barren, desolate.
Complete, absolute, full.
* Ben Jonson
* Collier
* Selden
starkly; entirely, absolutely
* Fuller
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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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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 ----stark
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) stark, starc, from (etyl) stearc, . Related to (l). Modifying naked , an alternation of original .Adjective
(er)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.}}
- a stark , moss-trooping Scot
- Stark beer, boy, stout and strong beer.
- Whose senses all were straight benumbed and stark .
- Many a nobleman lies stark and stiff / Under the hoofs of vaunting enemies.
- The north is not so stark and cold.
- I picked my way forlornly through the stark , sharp rocks.
- I screamed in stark terror.
- A flower was growing, in stark contrast, out of the sidewalk.
- Consider the stark security / The common wealth is in now.
- He pronounces the citation stark nonsense.
- Rhetoric is very good or stark naught; there's no medium in rhetoric.
Derived terms
* (l)Adverb
(-)- He's gone stark , staring mad.
- She was just standing there, stark naked.
- held him strangled in his arms till he was stark dead.
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