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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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Andrew Farren, a former trustee who lives near the Joels, worried that a stable would be “a stinkpot.”
From Washington Times
"This city is full of stinkpots like our little friend here. Let your guard down, and they'll take you for everything you've got."
From Literature
Southern giant petrels, big black seabirds also called Antarctic giant petrels, giant fulmars, stinkers, and stinkpots, flew in formation.
From New York Times
Labeling touchy new mothers “stinkpots”? Omitting the mother when charting the provenance of a grandchild?
From Washington Post
Sure, I'm going out with him again, you little stinkpot.
From Project Gutenberg
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