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stinkpot

[ stingk-pot ]

noun

  1. Also called stinkball. a jar containing combustibles or other materials that generate offensive and suffocating vapors, formerly used in warfare.
  2. Informal. a stinker; meany.
  3. a common musk turtle, Sternotherus odoratus, of the eastern and southern U.S., that sometimes climbs trees along the water's edge.


stinkpot

/ ˈstɪŋkˌpɒt /

noun

  1. slang.
    a person or thing that stinks
  2. slang.
    a person considered to be unpleasant
  3. another name for musk turtle
  4. Also calledstink ball military (formerly) a container filled with material that gives off noxious or suffocating vapours
“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


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Word History and Origins

Origin of stinkpot1

First recorded in 1655–65; stink + pot 1
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Example Sentences

"Stinkpot" she called it, when acknowledging foul elements in the composition and the harm it did to the unskilful balist.

Not long ago an effective weapon called "stinkpot" was in use.

Paracelsus brought a squadron of stinkpot-flingers from the snowy mountains of Rhaetia.

I am sorry to see that Erasmus imitated his enemies and at times was ambidextrous in the use of the literary stinkpot.

Paracelsus brought a squadron of stinkpot-flingers from the snowy mountains of Rhætia.

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