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Definition of 'stinker'

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • 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.
  • * {{quote-book
  • |year=1960 |author= |title=(Jeeves in the Offing) |section=chapter II |passage=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 .
  • * {{quote-book
  • |year=1960 |author= |title=(Jeeves in the Offing) |section=chapter V |passage=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.}}
  • * {{quote-book
  • |year=1960 |author= |title=(Jeeves in the Offing) |section=chapter X |passage=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 [http://www.avclub.com/articles/dark-tide,72548/]
  • 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.
  • Any of several species of large Antarctic petrels which feed on blubber and carrion and have an offensive odour, such as the giant fulmar.
  • A chemist.
  • 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

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    Similar to 'stinker'

    stinger, stingier, stonker, stinkier, stancher