Stinkhouse

Quick meaning: Stinkhouse is a noun meaning (slang, derogatory) Any offensively unclean building.

Meaning

(slang, derogatory) Any offensively unclean building.

Example Sentences

Was this place ever a tar-stained stinkhouse like the general's? No, I couldn't believe that any paint, no matter how many coats and how thick, could cover that stench. It seeps, becomes part of the building, redefines its fate.

'It is superb advice. I am happy with the thought of my friend. Because of this thought and the friendship I hold for him, let me offer fifteen hundred dollars. It is all the money I have in the world, plus some money entrusted to me by my friend who is with the sickness of women in the stink-house called a hospital and who cannot work for himself.'

Word Forms

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