Stenchful
/ˈstɛntʃ.fəl/noun
Having a strong, unpleasant smell.
Did you know?The noun “stench” originally referred broadly to a smell before English increasingly narrowed it to an offensive one; the suffix “-ful” simply means “full of.”
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*stengʰ-
“To sting, prick, or produce a sharp sensation; a proposed ancestral root associated with Germanic smell-words”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*stankiz
“A strong or offensive smell”
Old English
OE
stenc
“A smell or odor, whether pleasant or unpleasant”
Middle English
ME
stench
“A smell, increasingly one understood as foul or offensive”
Middle English
ME
-ful
“The suffix meaning “full of” or “characterized by””
Modern English
English
stenchful
“Full of stench; strongly and unpleasantly odorous”
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