stinker
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edit- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈstɪŋ.kə(ɹ)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈstɪŋ.kɚ/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪŋkə(ɹ)
Noun
editstinker (plural stinkers)
- One who stinks.
- Skunks are the worst stinkers in the animal kingdom.
- (slang) A contemptible person or thing.
- 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
- "Stop squallin', you little stinker!" She struck the child with her open hand across the face.
- 1952, C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader:
- "But it's far worse for me," said Edmund, "because you'll at least have a room of your own and I shall have to share a bedroom with that record stinker, Eustace."
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter II, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
- 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.
- 2011, Steven Z. Kussin, Doctor, Your Patient Will See You Now, page 241:
- When you are colonized by dangerous bacteria their presence in your body does no damage. You become a reservoir for those little stinkers.
- (slang) Something difficult (e.g. a given puzzle) or unpleasant (e.g. negative review, nasty letter).
- Today's crossword is a stinker.
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter V, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
- I number several authors among my acquaintance […] and they invariably become all of a doodah when they read a stinker in the press about their latest effort.
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter X, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
- 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.
- (British, slang) Something of poor quality.
- 2002 April 19, Scott Tobias, “Dark Tide”, in AV Club[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.
- 2021 September 30, Ted McCormick, “Steven Pinker, Rational Thinker”, in Slate[2]:
- Steven Pinker, Rational Thinker: His new book is a stinker. [title]
- 2022 October 17, Stuart Heritage, “Now it’s over, let’s come out and say it: The Rings of Power was a stinker”, in The Guardian[3]:
- Now it’s over, let’s come out and say it: The Rings of Power was a stinker [title]
- 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.
- (Australia, slang) A black eye.
- (Australia, informal) A western grey kangaroo.
- (colloquial) A giant petrel.
Synonyms
edit- (a person who stinks): stinkard
- (a contemptible person): creep, rotter, scoundrel, stinkard
- (something difficult or unpleasant): hatchet job, nastygram
- (something of poor quality): clunker
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edit- wanker (fish)
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