stinker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English stink
English -er
English stinker
From stink + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: stinkers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who stinks.
pos: noun
examples: Skunks are the worst stinkers in the animal kingdom.
gloss: A contemptible person or thing.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: "Stop squallin', you little stinker!" She struck the child with her open hand across the face.
"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."
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.
When you are colonized by dangerous bacteria their presence in your body does no damage. You become a reservoir for those little stinkers.
gloss: Something difficult (e.g. a given puzzle) or unpleasant (e.g. negative review, nasty letter).
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Today's crossword is a stinker.
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.
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.
gloss: Something of poor quality.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
examples: 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.
Steven Pinker, Rational Thinker: His new book is a stinker. [title]
Now it’s over, let’s come out and say it: The Rings of Power was a stinker [title]
gloss: Any of several species of large Antarctic petrels which feed on blubber and carrion and have an offensive odour, such as the giant fulmar.
pos: noun
gloss: A chemist.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A hot day.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
slang
gloss: A black eye.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
slang
gloss: A western grey kangaroo.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
informal
gloss: A giant petrel.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: An eastern long-necked turtle (which emits a foul-smelling musk when threatened).
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
Synonyms: stinkard
Related words: stink
stinker-upper
Derived words: stinkerdom
wanker
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: смрадливец
roman: smradlivec
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 臭鬼
roman: chòuguǐ
lang: Czech
word: smraďoch
lang: Dutch
word: stinker
lang: Estonian
word: närukael
lang: Estonian
word: värdjas
lang: Finnish
word: haisuli
lang: Finnish
word: haisunäätä
lang: French
word: pueur
lang: French
word: puant
lang: German
word: Stinker
lang: German
word: Stinkerin
lang: Italian
word: puzzone
lang: Polish
word: śmierdziel
lang: Portuguese
word: fedorento
lang: Romanian
word: împuțit
lang: Russian
word: воню́чка
roman: vonjúčka