stynkynge
Middle English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈstinkinɡ/, [ˈstiŋkiŋɡ]
Noun
stynkynge (uncountable)
- The emission of a foul odour
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Parsons Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio cvi, verso, column 1:
- Of the hinder part of her buttockes it is ful horrible for to ſe, for certes in that parte of her body there as they purge her ſtynkynge ordure, that foul partie ſhew they to yͤ people proudly in diſpite of honeſtie, which honeſtie that Jeſu Christ and hys frendes obſerued to ſhewe in her life.
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- A bad smell; stench
Descendants
- English: stinking
- Scots: stinkin
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈstinkinɡ/, [ˈstiŋkiŋɡ]
References
- “stinking(e, ger.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-28.
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