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Stink vs Kim - What's the difference?

stink | kim |

As nouns the difference between stink and kim

is that stink is a strong bad smell while kim is pincers, clamp.

As a verb stink

is to have a strong bad smell.

stink

English

Verb

  • To have a strong bad smell.
  • (informal) To be greatly inferior; to perform badly.
    • That movie stinks . I didn't even stay for the end.
  • To give an impression of dishonesty or untruth.
    • Something stinks about the politician's excuses.
  • To cause to stink; to affect by a stink.

    • Synonyms

    * (have a strong bad smell) pong, reek * (be greatly inferior) suck, blow * (give an impression of dishonesty or untruth) be fishy

    Derived terms

    * stink up * stink out

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A strong bad smell.
  • (informal) A complaint or objection.
    • If you don't make a stink about the problem, nothing will be done.
  • chemistry (as a subject taught in school)
  • (slang, New Zealand) A failure or unfortunate event.
    • The concert was stink .

    Synonyms

    * (strong bad smell) fetor, odour/odor, pong, reek, smell, stench * *

    Derived terms

    * kick up a stink * stink badger * stinkbomb * stinker * stink eye * stink machine * stinky

    Anagrams

    * English irregular verbs ----

    kim

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Gim (Korean surname )

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • , a short form of Kimball or Kimberley.
  • * 1901 , Chapter 1
    • The half-caste woman who looked after him (she smoked opium, and pretended to keep a second-hand furniture shop by the square where the cheap cabs wait) told the missionaries that she was Kim ’s mother’s sister; but his mother had been nursemaid in a colonel's family and had married Kimball O’Hara, a young color-sergeant of the Mavericks, an Irish regiment.
  • used since 1940s, a short form of Kimberly/Kimberley.
  • * 1926 , Show Boat , Doubleday, Page & Co, page 1:
    • Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse. - - - It is no secret that the absurd monosyllable which comprises her given name is made up of the first letters of three states — Kentucky, Illinois, and Missouri — in all of which she was, incredibly enough, born .
  • * 1991 , Mao II , Viking, ISBN 0670839043, page 16
    • It will take some getting used to, a husband named Kim'. She has known girls named '''Kim''' since she was a squirt in a sunsuit. Quite a few really. Kimberleys and plain ' Kims .
  • ), the most common Korean surname.