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# Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/word-of-the-day-98/
- Published: 2019-11-07T17:15:36.000Z
- Updated: 2019-11-07T09:37:14.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:49

The word for today is…

stench (noun) – 1\. A strong, foul odour; a stink.  
2\. A foul or objectionable quality

Source : [The Free Dictionary](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/stench?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Old English stenc “a smell, odor, scent, fragrance” (either pleasant or unpleasant), from Proto-Germanic \*stankwiz (source also of Old Saxon stanc, Old High German stanch, German stank). Related to stincan “emit a smell” as drench is to drink. It tended toward “bad smell” in Old English (as a verb, only with this sense), and the notion of “evil smell” has predominated since circa 1200.