hanging
n.n. extremely unpleasant or disgusting. You use this to describe something that looks, smells, or tastes very bad.
n. extremely unpleasant, disgusting, or repulsive. Informal in register; frequently used in British English to describe food, smells, or physical states like a hangover.
The food at that old café was absolutely hanging.
I had to leave the room because the smell of the old bins was hanging.
After the party, the flat was in a hanging state, with spilled drinks and half-eaten food covering every available surface in the kitchen.
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
From Middle English hangynge, honginge, equivalent to hang + -ing. Compare Old English hengen (“hanging”) and hōhing (“hanging”).
Typically used as a predicative adjective after a linking verb like 'be' or 'smell'.