stank-ass cheese
- noun
- Offensive
:
queso apestoso (coloquial, vulgar)
- She accidentally bought some stank-ass cheese that stunk up the whole kitchen.
Examples
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That stank-ass cheese in the fridge needs to go!
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No one wanted to eat the stank-ass cheese after opening the fridge.
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If you don't refrigerate it, you'll end up with some stank-ass cheese in a few days.
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I can't believe you bought stank-ass cheese again.
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After forgetting about it for weeks, I found some stank-ass cheese in the back of the fridge, and the smell was unbearable.
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The party guests were horrified when they opened the cheese platter and discovered a piece of stank-ass cheese that had spoiled.
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He complained about the stank-ass cheese that lingered in the kitchen for days after the dinner party.
Synonyms
A cheese with a very strong, unpleasant smell like a skunk
A joke name for old food that smells bad
How Pungent
Surface Forms
Morphology
stank-ass + cheese
The phrase is a straightforward slang composition: 'stank' (stinky) plus the vulgar intensifier '-ass' modifying 'cheese', so the overall meaning 'very smelly/rotten cheese' follows directly from the parts. Although the first element is coarse and marked slang (and may not appear in dictionaries), the semantic contribution of its constituents is transparent, so a learner who knows those words can readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Stank-ass cheese: One popular story says stank-ass cheese comes from the word stank, an old form of 'stink' meaning 'very smelly', with ass added as a slang word to make the idea stronger, so stank-ass cheese means 'cheese that smells really bad'.