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stinkfaul

German, adjective[ˌʃtɪŋkˈfaʊ̯l]

stinkfaul is a German adjective meaning “lazy as hell” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “sehr faul”.

What does stinkfaul mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    lazy as hell

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. sehr faul

The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.

Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of stinkfaul

  • stinkfauler masculine nominative singular
  • stinkfaule feminine nominative singular
  • stinkfaules neuter nominative singular
  • stinkfaulen genitive masculine singular
  • stinkfaulem dative masculine singular
  • der stinkfaule definite includes-article masculine
  • die stinkfaule definite feminine includes-article
  • das stinkfaule definite includes-article neuter
  • die stinkfaulen definite includes-article nominative
  • des stinkfaulen definite genitive includes-article
  • der stinkfaulen definite feminine genitive
  • dem stinkfaulen dative definite includes-article
  • den stinkfaulen dative definite includes-article
  • am stinkfaulsten superlative

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce stinkfaul?

  • [ˌʃtɪŋkˈfaʊ̯l]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is stinkfaul in German?

stinkfaul appears about once in every 35 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).