What's the difference between stinky and whiffy?

Stinky


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Maybe you understand the twinkling of the stars, the falling of objects to earth or what it takes to be an astronaut, or you’ve battled a dragon or discovered just how stinky the stinky past could be in a horrible history.
  • (2) If you're going to opine about cheese, it's best to know your washed rind (stinky) from your bloomy rind (buttery).
  • (3) In March 2002, a pre-buzzcut Justin Timberlake broke up with a pre-breakdown Britney Spears after a three-year relationship which saw them blossom from perma-smiling Mouseketeers to pin-ups for young love (they used to call each other Stinky and Pinky!).
  • (4) I took off my stinky travel clothes and stepped into the shower for 10 uninterrupted minutes.
  • (5) How this charismatic-if-potentially-stinky Antipodean reached rural England is anyone’s guess.
  • (6) Immediately after the admission, cystostomy was carried out and 600 ml of stinky and cloudy urine was noted.
  • (7) Not included in that last category were Pengy, Ellie, Joe, Schmo, Candle, Sweepy, Big Hilda, The Bear in the Big Blue House, Oie, Dal, Tina's Pussy, Stinky, Piggy … These creatures all had names.
  • (8) You could even make out in some of them – especially the foul-smelling but charismatic Stinky – the faintest outline of a personality.
  • (9) They were visiting a Scottish farm, and each of them had a shovel, or perhaps a fork, in their hands, on the end of which there was balanced a mound of something brown and stinky-looking.
  • (10) Kids can design a stegosaurus, smell the stinky breath of a carnivore and scream at a bloody-jawed animatronic raptor.
  • (11) We ate lunch huddled around this metal heater in a stinky old sheep-house.
  • (12) We do sometimes seem, the three of us, the pasteurised cheese on the cheeseboard and then Ukip is the rich ripe stinky alternative and people think: 'Don't mind having a slice of that.'
  • (13) On a mud bank, a lizard suns itself, while high up in the tree canopy, we catch glimpses of flying monkeys and grunting Hoatzin "stinky turkeys" – prehistoric survivors with claws that grow into wings, which could have inspired the creatures in James Cameron's film Avatar.
  • (14) The latest collection of stinky loans within Anglo Irish Bank is being transferred to the national "bad bank" at just 33% of face value.
  • (15) No child raised on Dear Zoo , with a toy zoo, warbling: “We’re going to the zoo”, is likely to seize on the contradiction between loving animals and wanting to see them rocking inside in small, stinky stalls.

Whiffy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Long before they tucked into the starters there was something whiffy about the relationship between No 10 and News International: why did the prime minister stand by his PR man long after most sentient people had concluded that his denials of involvement in phone-hacking were risible?
  • (2) The keeper has looked iffy today but letting that in would have made him absolutely whiffy.
  • (3) The children who turned up bedraggled, a bit whiffy and wearing only a rough approximation of school uniform.
  • (4) But the stench was put down to whiffy bins, and the flies and insects swarming on the windowsills were ignored.

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