taint
$ \mathrm{taint}^1 |tānt|
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noun
a trace of a bad or undesirable quality or substance:
〖通例単数形で〗(悪いことの)傾向, 痕跡.
e.g. the taint of corruption that adhered to the regime.
a thing whose influence or effect is perceived as contaminating or undesirable:
不名誉, 汚点, 汚名.
e.g. the taint that threatens to stain most of the company's other partners.
an unpleasant smell:
e.g. the lingering taint of creosote.
verb with object
contaminate or pollute (something):
«…で» 〈空気･水など〉を汚染する «with» .
e.g. the air was tainted by fumes from the cars.
affect with a bad or undesirable quality:
｟かたく｠ «…で» 〈人･名声など〉を汚す, 傷つける, おとしめる «by, with» .
e.g. his administration was tainted by scandal.
no object archaic (of food or water) become contaminated or polluted.
〈食物などが〉腐る, 傷む
ORIGIN
Middle English (as a verb in the sense ‘convict, prove guilty’): partly from Old French teint ‘tinged’, based on Latin tingere ‘to dye, tinge’; partly a shortening of attaint.
$ \mathrm{taint}^2 |tānt|
noun US vulgar slang
the perineum.
ORIGIN
1950s: from the contraction of it ain't in humorous phrases referring to the perineum’s position on the body, characterized as being neither the anus nor the genitals.