Stenchとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /stɛnt͡ʃ/
• 韻: -ɛntʃ

名詞

stench (plural stenches)

1. a strong foul smell; a stink.
2. (figurative) A foul quality.

   the stench of political corruption

3. (obsolete) A smell or odour, not necessarily bad.
   • a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “The First Book of Homer’s Ilias”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume IV, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, →OCLC, page 432:

     Black bulls, and bearded goats on altars lie; / And clouds of ſav'ry ſtench involve the ſky.

同意語

• (disagreeable smell): stink, pong (Commonwealth)

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “disagreeable smell”): aroma, fragrance, perfume

派生語

動詞

stench (third-person singular simple present stenches, present participle stenching, simple past and past participle stenched)

1. (obsolete) To cause to emit a disagreeable odour; to cause to stink.
   • 1729, Edward Young, Imperium Pelagi:

     Dead bards stench every coast

2. To stanch.

語源

Originally two distinct nouns:

• 古期英語 stenċ, from Proto-West Germanic *stankwi, from Proto-Germanic *stankwiz.
• 古期英語 stynċ, from Proto-West Germanic *stunkwi, from Proto-Germanic *stunkwiz.

発音

• IPA: /stɛnt͡ʃ/, /stint͡ʃ/
• IPA: /stynt͡ʃ/ (Southern or Southwest Midland)

名詞

stench (plural stenches)

1. A stench; an unpleasant or repulsive smell:
   1. The sulphuric smell of hellfire.
   2. The smell of sin or iniquity.
2. Something that causes or has such a smell.
3. (rare, Early Middle English) A smell or scent (good or bad).

関連する語

• stenchen

派生した語

• English: stench
• Scots: stench, stinch

参照

• “stench, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 24 October 2018.
• Zettersten, Arne (1965), “stench (sb.)”, in Studies in the dialect and vocabulary of the Ancrene Riwle (Lund Studies in English; 34)‎, Lund: C. W. K. Gleerup, →OCLC, page 81.