stinker
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Audio (AU): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪŋkə(r)
Noun
stinker (plural stinkers)
- A person who stinks.
- (slang) A contemptible person.
- I won't date Mary Jane again. I thought she was a stinker to leave before the end of the movie.
- 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter II:
- Never be a stinker, because if you are, though you may flourish for a time like a green bay tree, sooner or later retribution will overtake you.
- (slang) Something difficult (e.g. a given puzzle) or unpleasant (e.g. negative review, nasty letter).
- Today's crossword is a stinker.
- 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter V:
- I number several authors among my aquaintance [...] and they invariably become all of a doodah when they read a stinker in the press about their latest effort.
- 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter X:
- I sat there seething with fury. And after I had seethed for a bit I rose from my chair, took pen in hand and wrote Bobbie a stinker. [...] I accused her in set terms of giving me the heave-ho in order that she could mercenarily marry a richer man. I called her a carrot-topped Jezebel whom I was thankful to have got out of my hair. I... Oh, I can't remember what else I said but, as I say, it was a stinker.
- (slang) Something of poor quality.
- April 19 2002, Scott Tobias, AV Club Dark Tide[1]
- The barely-released stinker Dark Tide continues Stockwell’s fetishistic pattern, coming alive whenever it’s paddling among the sharks off the South African coast and settling in for a long snooze once it gets back on the boat or reaches dry land.
- April 19 2002, Scott Tobias, AV Club Dark Tide[1]
- Any of several species of large Antarctic petrels which feed on blubber and carrion and have an offensive odour, such as the giant fulmar.
- (slang) A chemist.
- (Australia, slang) A hot day.
Synonyms
- (a person who stinks): stinkard
- (a contemptible person): creep, rotter, scoundrel, stinkard
- (something difficult or unpleasant): hatchet job, nastygram
- (something of poor quality): clunker
Derived terms
- wanker (fish)
Related terms
Translations
person who stinks
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Verb
stinker
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