# stinker
## English
### Etymology

From stink +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈstɪŋ.kə(ɹ)/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈstɪŋ.kɚ/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪŋkə(ɹ)

### Noun

stinker (plural stinkers)
* One who stinks.
    Skunks are the worst stinkers in the animal kingdom.
* (slang) A contemptible person or thing.
** 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:"Stop squallin', you little stinker!" She struck the child with her open hand across the face.
** 1952, C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader:"But it's far worse for me," said Edmund, "because you'll at least have a room of your own and I shall have to share a bedroom with that record stinker, Eustace."
** 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter II, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:Never be a stinker, because if you are, though you may flourish for a time like a green bay tree, sooner or later retribution will overtake you.
** 2011, Steven Z. Kussin, Doctor, Your Patient Will See You Now, page 241:When you are colonized by dangerous bacteria their presence in your body does no damage. You become a reservoir for those little stinkers.
* (slang) Something difficult (e.g. a given puzzle) or unpleasant (e.g. negative review, nasty letter).
    Today's crossword is a stinker.
** 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter V, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:I number several authors among my acquaintance […] and they invariably become all of a doodah when they read a stinker in the press about their latest effort.
** 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter X, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:I sat there seething with fury. And after I had seethed for a bit I rose from my chair, took pen in hand and wrote Bobbie a stinker. […] I accused her in set terms of giving me the heave-ho in order that she could mercenarily marry a richer man. I called her a carrot-topped Jezebel whom I was thankful to have got out of my hair. I... Oh, I can't remember what else I said but, as I say, it was a stinker.
* (British, slang) Something of poor quality.
** 2002 April 19, Scott Tobias, “Dark Tide”, in AV Club‎:The barely-released stinker Dark Tide continues Stockwell’s fetishistic pattern, coming alive whenever it’s paddling among the sharks off the South African coast and settling in for a long snooze once it gets back on the boat or reaches dry land.
** 2021 September 30, Ted McCormick, “Steven Pinker, Rational Thinker”, in Slate‎:Steven Pinker, Rational Thinker: His new book is a stinker. [title]
** 2022 October 17, Stuart Heritage, “Now it’s over, let’s come out and say it: The Rings of Power was a stinker”, in The Guardian‎:Now it’s over, let’s come out and say it: The Rings of Power was a stinker [title]
* Any of several species of large Antarctic petrels which feed on blubber and carrion and have an offensive odour, such as the giant fulmar.
* (slang) A chemist.
* (Australia, slang) A hot day.
* (Australia, slang) A black eye.
* (Australia, informal) A western grey kangaroo.
* (colloquial) A giant petrel.

#### Synonyms

* (a person who stinks): stinkard
* (a contemptible person): creep, rotter, scoundrel, stinkard
* (something difficult or unpleasant): hatchet job, nastygram
* (something of poor quality): clunker

#### Derived terms

* wanker (fish)

#### Related terms

* stink
* stinker-upper

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Inkster, Kinters, Kirsten, Kistner, Kristen, reknits, skinter, striken, tinkers

## Swedish
### Verb

stinker
* present of stinka

### Anagrams

* Kerstin, kristen, kristne, skrinet