くさ
Meanings
Adjective (い)
1. stinking; smelly
2. suspicious; fishy
3. clumsy; unskilled
Adjective (い)
Suffix
4. smelling of
5. looking like; appearing like; smacking of; -ish
Pitch accent
Top 6200
Used in vocabulary (87 in total)
bothersome; tiresome; bother to do
embarrassing; awkward
suspicious-looking; shady; questionable; dubious; fishy
Examples (9 in total)
It stinks.
Are you saying I smell bad?
This towel is smelly.
You stink of cigarettes.
Your socks stink.
Tom always smells like cigarettes.
The room smelled of tobacco.
"I'm soaked with sweat." "Step back. You stink!"
It's quite distinct from the smell of burning.