Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. smelly, dirty, unattractive.

1964		B. Jackson Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 146: He was so long and lanky, and so motherfucken stanky, / till they threw him in the streets.
1980		E. Folb Runnin’ Down Some Lines 255: stanky Smelly.
1992		R.C. Cruz Straight Outta Compton 25: This stanky bitch, who wore a straw hat, tried to crack on me.
1997		(con. 1970s) G. Pelecanos King Suckerman (1998) 13: Gettin’ some of that stanky-ass pussy.
2002		J. Lerner You Got Nothing Coming 137: On-the-leg piece a shit! [...] Warden-jeffing suck-ass! [...] Punk-ass stanky-on-the-hang-low bitch motherfucker!
2008		R. Price Lush Life 57: An Our Gang pot-stanky garden apartment .
2011		H. Davidson ‘This Little Piggy’ in Pulp Ink [ebook] Stanky Mr Keds had an unhealthy fixation on sweaty sneakers.
2022		J. Hannaham Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit 275: I got used to the extra-stanky stank up in Ithaca.

2. in fig. use, a general negative: useless, disgusting etc.

1997		N. Barlay Curvy Lovebox 127: I just been waitin’ to fall off my whole stanky life.
2001		N. Barlay Hooky Gear 59: The stanky diehard regular in the corner dont look right suppin bitter next to all that.