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Stinteth vs Stinketh - What's the difference?

stinteth | stinketh |

As verbs the difference between stinteth and stinketh

is that stinteth is (archaic) (stint) while stinketh is (stink).

stinteth

English

Verb

(head)
  • (archaic) (stint)

    • stint

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A period of time spent doing or being something. A spell.
    • He had a stint in jail.
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  • limit; bound; restraint; extent
  • * South
    • God has wrote upon no created thing the utmost stint of his power.
  • Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
  • * Cowper
    • His old stint — three thousand pounds a year.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To stop (an action); cease, desist.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.iii:
    • O do thy cruell wrath and spightfull wrong / At length allay, and stint thy stormy strife
  • * Shakespeare
    • And stint thou too, I pray thee.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • The damsel stinted in her song.
  • (obsolete) To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
  • * Late 14th century , :
    • Now wol I stynten of this Arveragus, / And speken I wole of Dorigen his wyf
  • To be sparing or mean.
    • The next party you throw, don't stint on the beer.
  • To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
  • * Woodward
    • I shall not go about to extenuate the latitude of the curse upon the earth, or stint it only to the production of weeds.
  • * Law
    • She stints them in their meals.
  • To assign a certain task to (a person), upon the performance of which he/she is excused from further labour for that day or period; to stent.
  • To impregnate successfully; to get with foal; said of mares.
  • * J. H. Walsh
    • The majority of maiden mares will become stinted while at work.

    Etymology 2

    Origin unknown.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris . Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.

    • Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (medical device).

    • Anagrams

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    stinketh

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (stink)

    • Anagrams

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    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

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