stinking adv.
utterly, wholeheartedly, excessively; often as stinking drunk.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Bulletin (Sydney) 20 Jul. 11/2: The Australian Idiom. / Aunt Prune: ‘And, of course, my Reginald has been a nice, good boy.’ / Reginald (nonchalantly): ‘Oh, I ain’t been doin’ too stinkin’!’. | |
| Bulletin (Sydney) 23 July 22/2: They desired to know why Danny had been so stinkin’ anxious to get hold of that particular number. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Distinguished Air (1963) 14: She was so stinking drunk both times. | |
| Miss Knight (1963) 49: With her it was ‘now I’m tellin’ you, Mary,’ or ‘now when these bitches get elegant I lay ’em out stinkin’. | |
| Pleasure Man (1997) II ii: I just laid him out stinkin’, the shopworn mess. | |
| Haunch Paunch and Jowl 253: I want to get stinkin’, paralysin’, forgettin’ drunk. | |
| ‘A Holiday in Texas’ Texas Stories (1995) 40: Yo’ goddam stinkin’ well right know they ain’t. | |
| Lonely Boy Blues (1965) 80: One bastard thing. You might wind up dead. Stinking, stinking dead. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Of Love And Hunger 62: You’re stinking tight. | |
| From Here to Eternity (1998) 54: A dumb bastard that [...] gets stinking drunk up at the stinking Officers Club. | |
| Dream of Peter Mann Act II: Let’s all get stinking tight – we’re gonna have a smashing time. | |
| Brief Authority 225: I’m getting drunk to-night – solid stinking plastered. | |
| London Embassy 14: Their idea of fun is to get stinking drunk. | |
| Dict. of Invective (1991) 374: Stinking (especially stinking drunk). | |
| Indep. on Sun. 1 Aug. 28: It was a stinking hot day. | |
| Soho 98: ‘Rat-arsed.’ [...] ‘Inebriated, I should say.’ [...] ‘Oh, you mean blotto. That’s what we used to say when any of us got stinking.’ ‘Stinking blotto.’. |
In derivatives
completely, utterly.
| [ | | Measure for Measure III ii: Canst thou believe thy living is a life, So stinkingly depending?]. |
| Orkney Herald 24 Aug. 4/5: Women will cease to call [...] a Venus by Leighton ‘stinkingly beautiful’. | |
| Brighton Gaz. 27 Sept. 5/7: The Standard was ‘stinkingly sarcastic’ [...] about imaginary drainage deficiencies. | |
 | Dly Herald (London) 16 Apr. 2/3: The power the capitalist possessed to keep wages so stinkingly low . | |
| Lucifer with a Book 141: He got silently and stinkingly drunk. | |
| Room at the Top (1959) 191: We got really stinkingly sozzled. | |
| Angola Herald (IN) 18 Dec. 1/2: Elsie, who was such a perfect little lady, and always so stinkingly resigned to her fate. | |
| Morn. Herald (Uniontown, PA) 16 Feb. 4/3: [The ] steel union presidential campaign got [...] stinkingly rough. | |
| Green Bay Press-Gaz. (WI) 1 July 19/3: John Bull might just have [...] got himelf stinkingly loaded. | |
| Post Star (Glen Falls, NY) 27 Feb. 9/1: He had gone to Congress via the stinkingly corrupt Tammanny Hall machine. | |
| Eve. Herald On the Box (Dublin) 8 Apr. 11/1: Why are British cop shows so stinkingly naff? |
In phrases
very wealthy.
| Far from the Customary Skies 117: Whut’s he bummin’ weeds for if he’s so stinkin’ rich? | |
| letter 20 June in Leader (2000) 603: Interior of well-off but not stinking rich set of rooms. | |
| Newcastle Jrnl 23 Feb. 6/3: [headline] Alfred really was stinking rich. | |
| Dict. of Invective (1991) 374: Stinking (especially [...] stinking rich). | |
| Sun. World (Dublin) 17 Oct. 10/1: [headline] Proof That We’re Not Really Stinking Rich. | |
| Keepers of Truth 78: When he got stinking rich. |