👎 Very bad thing 🍻 Very drunk 🍻 A drunk person

stinko

1 9.9

Very drunk or very unpleasant

adjective
/ˈstɪŋkoʊ/

Archaic

: borracho

When she tried the stinky cheese, she grimaced and said it tasted stinko.

Examples

He's here and, miracle of miracles, Not too stinko to talk.

Five Star Final (1931)
Hemingway: I am stinko, deadly lonely.

Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012)
But until then, let's get stinko.

Miller's Crossing (1990)
But until then, let's get stinko.

Fiction book (1990)
Floyd was getting pretty stinko.

Crossfire (1947)
"Why, Bernie Hull, you're stinko" -- he asked her to marry him.

Fiction book (1999)
Mitch was stinko.

Crossfire (1947)
Your ducky is stinko.

The Women (1939)
After the party, he felt completely stinko and needed to sleep it off.
The movie was so bad that I would call it stinko.

Synonyms

stinking

vsstinko

Informal

108 5.3

Very bad or unpleasant

is milder in tone and can also mean being extremely drunk

stinky

vsstinko

Informal

33 3.8

Very bad or of poor quality

also can mean being extremely drunk rather than only unpleasant

icky-poo

vsstinko

Informal

1 9.9

Feels unpleasant and gross, often sticky or smelly

is informal and adult usage that can also mean being very drunk

Antonyms

sober

286 3.2

Not having drunk alcohol or taken drugs

How Drunk

wasted

NSFW

94 8.4

stinko

Archaic

1 9.9

drunk

∞ 1.6

tipsy

Informal

24 4.8

sober

286 3.2

Surface Forms

stinko positive

Morphology

stinko = stink (semi-transparent) = stink + o

Formed from 'stink' + informal slang suffix '-o'; the general pejorative sense is clear but the specific extension to 'very drunk' is an idiomatic slang shift not fully predictable.

Etymology

Stinko probably comes from the common word stink, which means 'smell bad', plus a casual '-o' ending used in slang; a helpful way to remember it is to think of something that 'stinks' or is strongly unpleasant. That's why stinko can describe something very bad or, by extension, a person who is very drunk or messy.