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
Kanji used
smelly
Pitch accent
Top 4100
Used in vocabulary (82 in total)
suspicious-looking; shady; questionable; dubious; fishy
bothersome; tiresome; bother to do
embarrassing; awkward
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.