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[ sting-ker ] / ˈstɪŋ kər / SEE SYNONYMS FOR stinker ON THESAURUS.COM
nouna person or thing that stinks. Informal. a mean or despicable person; louse. Informal. something, especially some form of entertainment, of inferior quality. Informal. something difficult: a real stinker of a crossword puzzle. any device emitting an offensive odor, as a stink bomb or stinkpot. Dialect. any of several large petrels. Origin of stinker1600–10; 1920–25 for def. 2; stink + -er1 Words nearby stinkerstinkard, stinkaroo, stinkball, stink bomb, stink bug, stinker, stinkhorn, stinking, stinking ash, stinking badger, stinking cedar Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for stinkerPretty well by Russian standards—a free peasant was known as a smerd, meaning “stinker.” Russian History Is on Our Side: Putin Will Surely Screw Himself|P. J. O’Rourke|May 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST And the stench of desperation from retailers, fearful that the vital Christmas holiday season will be a stinker. Black Friday Comes Early as U.S. Retailers Panic Over Holiday Sales|Daniel Gross|November 21, 2013|DAILY BEAST When the two first met in 1918, Roosevelt called Churchill a “stinker.” Blago's Book List|The Daily Beast|March 27, 2009|DAILY BEAST A bit more urgent is how to extricate ourselves from this stinker of a GECSTGD. Sarah Palin, the Sequel|Christopher Buckley|November 10, 2008|DAILY BEAST
The crowd had already given Jurgis a name—they called him "he stinker." The Jungle|Upton Sinclair He's always riding Skinny about one thing or another, but Skinny never gets mad and it's a good thing for Stinker, too. We Didn't Do Anything Wrong, Hardly|Roger Kuykendall Stinker had produced from his pocket a corked test-tube, tightly packed with some dark substance. The Lighter Side of School Life|Ian Hay The second stanza (which carries over to the third) of that Ode is what is technically called a 'stinker.' A Diversity of Creatures|Rudyard Kipling She doesn't mind that stinker Lapoul messing over her, never turns a hair. Painted Veils|James Huneker
British Dictionary definitions for stinker
nouna person or thing that stinks slang a difficult or very unpleasant person or thing slang something of very poor quality informal any of several fulmars or related birds that feed on carrion Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to stinkerbounder, boor, rake, rascal, dog, louse, rat, lout, creep, scoundrel, clown, heel, cur, rounder, rotter, worm, cheat, knave, skunk, toad |