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ˈstink-pot
[f. stink n. + pot n., after Du. stinkpot.]
†1. = stinker 2. Obs.
1665[see stinker 2].
2. A hand-missile charged with combustibles emitting a suffocating smoke, used in boarding a ship for effecting a diversion while the assailants gain the deck.
1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag. i. ii. 20 Ply your Hand-Granadoes and Stink-Pots. 1798Z. Macaulay in Visctess. Knutsford Life & Lett. (1900) 185 She was prepared with stink-pots for boarding. 1875Knight Dict. Mech., Stink-pot, a vessel used by the Chinese and Malay pirates to throw on board a vessel to suffocate the crew. 1906Westm. Gaz. 24 Mar. 10/2 A piratical fleet closed round her, threw a stinkpot into the engine-room, and overpowered the crew.
Comb.1704Swift Batt. Bks. Misc. (1711) 242 Paracelsus brought a Squadron of Stink-Pot-Flingers from the snowy Mountains of Rhœtia.
transf.1748Smollett Rod. Rand. xi, I'll teach you to empty your stink-pots on me. 1913J. G. Frazer Golden Bough vi. Scapegoat iii. 133 The girls discharge their stink-pots in the faces of their adversaries.
fig.1738Warburton Div. Legat. I. Ded. p. xxii, Your Scurrilities, those Stink-pots of your offensive War. 1778Warner in Jesse Selwyn & Contemp. (1844) III. 317 Venice is a stink-pot, charged with the very virus of hell! 1807J. King (title) The Beauties of the Edinburgh Review, alias, the Stink-pot of Literature.
3. A sailor's name for a petrel. Cf. stinker 5. Also, in S. Africa, applied to the Sooty Albatross, Phœbetria fuliginosa, and the Cape hen, Majaqueus æquinoctialis (Pettman Africanderisms).
1865Hardwicke's Sci.-Gossip 1 Oct. 239/1 The Stink-pot of sailors is the Black Petrel (Procellaria æquinoctialis, L.).
4. A name given to the musk turtle, Cinosternum odoratum or Aromochelys odorata.
1844J. E. Gray Catal. Tortoises etc. Brit. Mus. 34 The Stink-Pot. Kinosternon odoratum. 1903Nature 1 Oct. 531/2 Fourteen Stink-pot Terrapins.
5. a. A term of abuse for a person or (rarely) a thing. slang.
1854T. Woolner Let. 4 Oct. in Geo. Eliot Lett. (1954) II. 176, I will not..display the filthy contaminations of these hideous satyrs and smirking moralists—..stink pots of humanity. 1916Joyce Portrait of Artist v. 230 Go away from here, he said rudely. Go away, you stink⁓pot. 1928D. H. Lawrence Let. Aug. (1932) 744 Whether I shall have the strength to put my nose into that stink-pot of an island [sc. England], I don't know. 1948D. Ballantyne Cunninghams xx. 267 They can call me miserable old stinkpot. 1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. ix. 155 These syllables are used..to turn a verb or adjective into a descriptive noun, as:..fuss-pot, stink-pot, [etc.]. 1973R. Ludlum Matlock Paper xii. 112 Nowhere does your signing this little stinkpot say you agree to retire from the scene.
b. A machine which emits foul exhaust fumes: esp. a truck or motor-boat. slang.
1972B. Garfield Line of Succession (1974) ii. 155 Mario had..a hatred of stinkpot powerboats. 1977H. Fast Immigrants i. 55 They're gone now, all of them [sc. fishing-boats with sails]. Nothing but stinkpots—I'm sorry—oil burners. 1978D. Bagley Flyaway xxi. 179 The truck broke through..and it killed them... Lousy stinkpots! Never have liked them except when I'm in a hurry. |