English

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Etymology

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Coined by Theodore Hook, apparently Blend of stink +‎ Trincomalee, perhaps because some cow-houses and dunghills stood on the original site.

Proper noun

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Stinkomalee

  1. (UK, slang, derogatory, obsolete) The University of London.

References

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  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary