astink
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "The earth between and beyond the lines Ravaged and sown with steel And churned with blood And astink with decaying men,"
- "And the doctor’s Jezebel come running from her lustful bed, still astink with sin and fear."
- "[…] the Rector ordered that his room should be cleaned and all the poisons he kept there taken away. Six weeks later it was all astink again."
- "Their fish camp down the Yukon can be discouraging, too—a dirty, fetid, lightless cabin astink in aging salmon."
- "Penny […] emptied her chamber pot on the rutting pairs. Astink and horrified, the girls complained,"
Etymology
From a- + stink.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: a