Citations:give out stink

English citations of give out stink, gives out stink, gave out stink, giving out stink, and given out stink

1. (Ireland, colloquial) give out strongly; complain strongly; scold or chide severely
   • 1996 January 11, Brendan Glacken, "Circus Animals' Desertion" in The Irish Times:

     The Independent, however, gives out stink about its lack of coherent narrative and meaningless multicultural language and fey interludes and cutesy masked creatures and fancy lighting cues and says the show's wall to wall pounding New Aged Rock crossover music (whatever that is) dictates the mood and leaves nothing to the imagination.

   • 1999, Hugh Leonard, "Love in the Title" in New Plays from the Abbey Theatre: Vol. 3, 1999-2001 (Syracuse University Press, 2003) →ISBN p.31:

     Well, I gave out stink to him. I said, 'Trust you to waste good money. By the time the child can read it the world will have changed.'

   • 2000 Decmeber 9, John Comyn, "The price of good racing" in Irish Independent:

     IS IRISH racing too expensive? The question is prompted by racegoers giving out stink about the hike in the admission price to Fairyhouse on Sunday.

   • 2012, Donal Ryan, The Spinning Heart (Random House) →ISBN p.22:

     Eileen buys my pantses and shirts and shoes and socks and underwear. I give out stink to her if I open the hot press and there's none at hand.

   • 2012, Morag Prunty, Disco Daddy (Pan Macmillan) →ISBN p.209:

     On and on and on – moaning and complaining and giving out stink to herself.

   • 2012 October 21, "My side of the road" in Irish Independent:

     This time a nice man flashed and flashed his lights at me until I realised that mine were not on. The number of times I've given out stink about others doing that.

   • 2012, Dave Hannigan, The Big Fight: Muhammad Ali vs Al "Blue" Lewis (Random House) →ISBN p.86:

     When she saw all these black whores, she chased them all out of it and then she gave out yards to him. She gave out stink and we all witnessed this right in front of the check-in desk.