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stinkpot
[ stingk-pot ]
noun
- Also called stinkball. a jar containing combustibles or other materials that generate offensive and suffocating vapors, formerly used in warfare.
- Informal. a stinker; meany.
- 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
- slang.a person or thing that stinks
- slang.a person considered to be unpleasant
- another name for musk turtle
- Also calledstink ball military (formerly) a container filled with material that gives off noxious or suffocating vapours
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"Stinkpot" she called it, when acknowledging foul elements in the composition and the harm it did to the unskilful balist.
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Not long ago an effective weapon called "stinkpot" was in use.
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Paracelsus brought a squadron of stinkpot-flingers from the snowy mountains of Rhaetia.
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I am sorry to see that Erasmus imitated his enemies and at times was ambidextrous in the use of the literary stinkpot.
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Paracelsus brought a squadron of stinkpot-flingers from the snowy mountains of Rhætia.
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