stinkern.
/ˈstɪŋkə/, U.S. /ˈstɪŋkər/ One who or something which stinks.† 2. A pot or jar containing a disinfectant. Obsolete.
1. = stinkard n. 1 low slang. Also in weakened slang uses, esp. banteringly and in mock-contempt.
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > [noun] > one who or that which
stewat1535
Stymphalist1595
stinkardc1600
stinker1607
stencha1616
smellera1627
carrionere1648
stinker1834
stink-pot1854
the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > as abused
warlockOE
swinec1175
beastc1225
wolf's-fista1300
avetrolc1300
congeonc1300
dirtc1300
slimec1315
snipec1325
lurdanc1330
misbegetc1330
sorrowa1350
shrew1362
jordan1377
wirlingc1390
frog?a1400
warianglea1400
wretcha1400
horcop14..
turdc1400
callet1415
lotterela1450
paddock?a1475
souter1478
chuff?a1500
langbain?c1500
cockatrice1508
sow1508
spink1508
wilrone1508
rook?a1513
streaker?a1513
dirt-dauber?1518
marmoset1523
babiona1529
poll-hatcheta1529
bear-wolf1542
misbegotten1546
pig1546
excrement1561
mamzer1562
chuff-cat1563
varlet1566
toada1568
mandrake1568
spider1568
rat1571
bull-beef1573
mole-catcher1573
suppository1573
curtal1578
spider-catcher1579
mongrela1585
roita1585
stickdirta1585
dogfish1589
Poor John1589
dog's facec1590
tar-boxa1592
baboon1592
pot-hunter1592
venom1592
porcupine1594
lick-fingers1595
mouldychaps1595
tripe1595
conundrum1596
fat-guts1598
thornback1599
land-rat1600
midriff1600
stinkardc1600
Tartar1600
tumbril1601
lobster1602
pilcher1602
windfucker?1602
stinker1607
hog rubber1611
shad1612
splay-foot1612
tim1612
whit1612
verdugo1616
renegado1622
fish-facea1625
flea-trapa1625
hound's head1633
mulligrub1633
nightmare1633
toad's-guts1634
bitch-baby1638
shagamuffin1642
shit-breech1648
shitabed1653
snite1653
pissabed1672
bastard1675
swab1687
tar-barrel1695
runt1699
fat-face1740
shit-sack1769
vagabond1842
shick-shack1847
soor1848
b1851
stink-pot1854
molie1871
pig-dog1871
schweinhund1871
wind-sucker1880
fucker1893
cocksucker1894
wart1896
so-and-so1897
swine-hound1899
motherfucker1918
S.O.B.1918
twat1922
mong1926
mucker1929
basket1936
cowson1936
zombie1936
meatball1937
shower1943
chickenshit1945
mugger1945
motherferyer1946
hooer1952
morpion1954
mother1955
mother-raper1959
louser1960
effer1961
salaud1962
gunk1964
scunge1967
1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster North-ward Hoe iv. sig. Fv I smelt out my noble stincker Greensheild in his Chamber.
1622 T. Dekker & P. Massinger Virgin Martir ii. sig. D This boone Bacchanalion stinker, did I make legges to.
1898 Daily News 23 July 9/4 He had called her ‘a stinker’ and ‘a stinking idiot.’
1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Stinker,..one who is disgustingly contemptible, a stinkard.
1922 C. E. Montague Disenchantment vii. 93 A boy of this kidney, while looking on at a vital house match, will give his mind ease by telling a friend what ‘a lot of stinkers’ the other house are.
1936 M. Allingham Death of Ghost xx. 237 I will show that stinker!
1949 A. Huxley Let. 6 Mar. (1969) 593 Saying what a stinker he is, both in bed and out.
c1951 T. Roethke Sel. Lett. (1968) 170 After your generous words, I feel a terrible stinker questioning everything.
1961 P. G. Wodehouse Service with Smile viii. 137 Is that you, Stinker?
1975 Daily Mail 30 May 3/6 A gang of ‘real stinkers’ have raided a top wartime air ace and stolen his most prized souvenir—a 6ft. German propellor.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > disinfecting > [noun] > disinfectant > jar containing disinfectants
stinker1665
stink-pot1665
1665 G. Harvey Disc. Plague (1673) 154 The Air may be purified..by burning of Stinck pots or Stinckers, as they call them, in contagious Lanes.
3. Anything that emits an offensive smell. Also formerly, a rank cigar or cigarette. slang.
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > [noun] > one who or that which
stewat1535
Stymphalist1595
stinkardc1600
stinker1607
stencha1616
smellera1627
carrionere1648
stinker1834
stink-pot1854
the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > thing which may be smoked > cigar or cigarette > bad-smelling
stinker1834
1834 Proc. Geol. Soc. 2 21 The greater part of the workings are only shallow pits, touching merely the sulphureous beds, locally called ‘stinkers’.
1898 Westm. Gaz. 29 Oct. 6/3 These gas cars were locally although vulgarly called ‘Stinkers.’
1907 Daily Chron. 13 Aug. 2/7 Suppose I am compelled to smoke a cigar, I may purchase a few nasty penny ‘stinkers,’ and keep within the order of the restaurant edict.
1924 N. Coward Rat Trap i. 11 There are cigarettes in that silver box, Keld; stinkers on one side, and opulent Turkish on the other.
1935 P. G. Wodehouse Luck of Bodkins iv. 42 Have you such a thing as a stinker?.. And a match?
1961 J. W. Anderson Fur Trader's Story iii. 23 At Moose Factory, I saw the last of the sulphur matches (‘stinkers’ we used to call them) which were in their day considered a great advance on the striking of flint on steel to make fire.
1970 B. Cartland We danced All Night vii. 198 Virginian cigarettes were first called ‘stinkers’, then ‘gaspers’, and were considered a little vulgar.
4. plural. (See quot. 1841.) local.
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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > coal or types of coal > [noun] > small, refuse, impure, or coal-dust
slackc1440
smith coal1466
smithy coal1482
coal dusta1529
panwood1531
smith's coal1578
kirving1599
culm1603
coom1611
small coal1643
smit1670
smut1686
slag1695
duff1724
duff coal1724
small1780
gum1790
stinking coal1803
cobbles1811
nubbling1825
stinkers1841
rubble1844
pea1855
nuts1857
nut coal1861
slap1865
burgee1867
smudge1883
waste1883
treble1901
coal smut1910
gumming1938
nutty slack1953
1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua Gloss. Stinkers, Stinking-coal, a very inferior kind of coal which bears its title from the disagreeable smell of sulphur which it emits in burning.
5. A sailor's name for the giant fulmar ( Ossifraga gigantea) and other ill-smelling petrels.
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the world > animals > birds > order Procellariiformes > [noun] > member of family Procellariidae (petrel) > member of genus Macronectus
nelly1825
stinkard1850
stink-pot1865
stinker1896
the world > animals > birds > order Procellariiformes > [noun] > family Diomedeidae (albatross) > diomedea fusca (sooty albatross)
Quaker1776
sooty albatross1777
stinkard1850
stink-pot1865
stinker1896
the world > animals > birds > order Procellariiformes > [noun] > member of family Procellariidae (petrel) > member of genus Procellaria > procellaria aequinoctialis (Cape-hen)
Cape-hen1775
stinkard1850
stink-pot1865
stinker1896
1896 A. Newton Dict. Birds Stinkpot, Stinker, sailors' names for some of the Petrels.
1906 W. L. Sclater Birds S. Afr. IV. 475 Majaqueus æquinoctialis... ‘Stinker’ of Sealers and Whalers.
6. figurative.
a. A strongly-worded letter; a disagreeable review or other communication. slang.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > [noun] > instance of invective or abuse
reproach1485
yarking1565
revilement1577
skinning1852
stinger1900
stinker1912
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > vigour or force > [noun] > vigorous language > a stiff piece of writing
trimmer1776
stinker1912
1912 World's Work Apr. 509/1 The principal content of this mail proved to be, as usual, a very long and wordy ‘stinker’.
1919 G. K. Rose 2/4th Oxf. & Bucks. Light Infantry 207 A ‘stinker’ followed, to which we could only retaliate by posting sentries the next day to warn us of the General's approach.
1936 P. G. Wodehouse Young Men in Spats vi. 157 For weeks..Stiffy had been yearning to write an absolute stinker to old Wivelscombe, telling him exactly what he thought of him.
1945 L. Durrell Let. 15 Dec. in Spirit of Place (1969) 81 I was afraid..that you would write me a stinker calling me a peach fed sod.
1953 E. M. Forster Hill of Devi 228 I composed a stinker... H. H. supervised it and decried any attempt at moderation.
b. More widely, something repugnant because of its difficulty or unendurable nature. colloquial.
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the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > offensiveness > offensive thing, person, or place > [noun]
bysena1525
bysym1568
bastard1675
nasty1825
objectionable1836
man-killer1876
undesirable1883
swine1892
stinker1917
bugger1922
pig1923
snake-pit1941
pisser1957
dickhead1960
1917 R. Kipling Diversity of Creatures 241 The second stanza..of that Ode is what is technically called a ‘stinker’.
1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 72 Stinker, a disagreeable, highly unpleasant and often humid day.
1947 Penguin New Writing 29 100 During the war the standard [of films] was undeniably high, with the exception of a few frank stinkers such as Half-Way House.
1959 D. Hewett Bobbin Up (1961) xiv. 216 Already the sky was pale and smoky with the promise of ‘another stinker’.
1967 Listener 9 Feb. 196/2 Stylistically, the Royal Victoria Hospital is indeed a stinker.
1979 H. R. F. Keating Inspector Ghote draws Line xv. 149 The headache..has become a real stinker now.
c. to come a stinker = to come a cropper at cropper n.3 (chiefly in the work of P. G. Wodehouse). slang.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > fall [verb (intransitive)] > fall down or from erect position > specifically of person or animal > severely or violently
pitchc1325
throwc1325
stetec1330
pick1848
to come (also go) a mucker1904
to come a stinker1923
1923 J. Manchon Le Slang 293 To come a stinker, ramasser une pelle.
1936 P. G. Wodehouse Laughing Gas iv. 41 And then..the engagement went and busted itself up. One moment, it was buzzing along like a two-year-old... The next, it had come a stinker.
a1975 P. G. Wodehouse Sunset at Blandings (1977) iii. 26 Lack of the stuff [sc. wealth] is always the rock on which the frail craft of love comes a stinker where Blandings is concerned.
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