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Definition of 'stinkers'

English

Noun

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  • * {{quote-book|year=1960
  • |author= |title=(Jeeves in the Offing) |section=chapter I |passage=Years ago, when striplings, he and I had done a stretch together at Malvern House, Bramley-on-Sea, the preparatory school conducted by that prince of stinkers , Aubrey Upjohn MA, and had frequently stood side by side in the Upjohn study awaiting the receipt of six of the juiciest from a cane of the type that biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder, as the fellow said.}}