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stinker|ˈstɪŋkə(r)|
[f. stink v. + -er1.]
One who or something which stinks.
1. = stinkard 1 low slang. Also in weakened slang uses, esp. banteringly and in mock-contempt.
1607Dekker & Webster North-w. Hoe iv. i. F 1 b, I smelt out my noble stincker Greensheild in his Chamber. 1622Massinger & Dekker Virg. Martyr ii. i. D i, This boone Bacchanalian stinker did I make legges to. 1898Daily News 23 July 9/4 He had called her ‘a stinker’ and ‘a stinking idiot.’ 1911Webster, Stinker (slang), one who is disgustingly contemptible, a stinkard. 1922[see house n.1 4 c]. 1936M. Allingham Death of Ghost xx. 237, I will show that stinker! 1949A. Huxley Let. 6 Mar. (1969) 593 Saying what a stinker he is, both in bed and out. c1951T. Roethke Selected Lett. (1968) 170 After your generous words, I feel a terrible stinker questioning everything. 1962Wodehouse Service with Smile viii. 120 Is that you, Stinker? 1975Daily Mail 30 May 3/6 A gang of ‘real stinkers’ have raided a top wartime air ace and stolen his most prized souvenir—a 6ft. German propellor.
†2. A pot or jar containing a disinfectant. Obs.
1665G. Harvey Disc. Plague (1673) 154 The Air may be purified..by burning of Stinck pots or Stinckers, as they call them, in contagious Lanes.
3. Anything that emits an offensive smell. Also formerly, a rank cigar or cigarette. slang.
1834Proc. Geol. Soc. II. 21 The greater part of the workings are only shallow pits, touching merely the sulphureous beds, locally called ‘stinkers’. 1898Westm. Gaz. 29 Oct. 6/3 These gas cars were locally although vulgarly called ‘Stinkers.’ 1907Daily Chron. 13 Aug. 2/7 Suppose I am compelled to smoke a cigar, I may purchase a few nasty penny ‘stinkers,’ and keep within the order of the restaurant edict. 1924N. Coward Rat Trap i. 11 There are cigarettes in that silver box, Keld; stinkers on one side, and opulent Turkish on the other. 1935Wodehouse Luck of Bodkins iv. 42 Have you such a thing as a stinker?.. And a match? 1961J. W. Anderson Fur Trader's Story iii. 23 At Moose Factory, I saw the last of the sulphur matches (‘stinkers’ we used to call them) which were in their day considered a great advance on the striking of flint on steel to make fire. 1970B. Cartland We danced All Night vii. 198 Virginian cigarettes were first called ‘stinkers’, then ‘gaspers’, and were considered a little vulgar.
4. pl. (See quot. 1841.) local.
1841Hartshorne Salop. Ant. Gloss., Stinkers, Stinking-coal, a very inferior kind of coal which bears its title from the disagreeable smell of sulphur which it emits in burning.
5. A sailor's name for the giant fulmar (Ossifraga gigantea) and other ill-smelling petrels.
1896Newton Dict. Birds, Stinkpot, Stinker, sailors' names for some of the Petrels. 1906W. L. Sclater Stark's Birds S. Africa IV. 475 Majaqueus æquinoctialis... ‘Stinker’ of Sealers and Whalers.
6. fig.
a. A strongly-worded letter; a disagreeable review or other communication. slang.
1912World's Work Apr. 509/1 The principal content of this mail proved to be, as usual, a very long and wordy ‘stinker’. 1936Wodehouse Young Men in Spats vi. 157 For weeks..Stiffy had been yearning to write an absolute stinker to old Wivelscombe, telling him exactly what he thought of him. 1945L. Durrell Spirit of Place (1969) 81, I was afraid..that you would write me a stinker calling me a peach fed sod. 1953E. M. Forster Hill of Devi 228, I composed a stinker... H. H. supervised it and decried any attempt at moderation.
b. More widely, something repugnant because of its difficulty or unendurable nature. colloq.
1917Kipling Diversity of Creatures 241 The second stanza..of that Ode is what is technically called a ‘stinker’. 1941S. J. Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 72 Stinker, a disagreeable, highly unpleasant and often humid day. 1947Penguin New Writing XXIX. 100 During the war the standard [of films] was undeniably high, with the exception of a few frank stinkers such as Half-Way House. 1959D. Hewett Bobbin Up 170 Already the sky was pale and smoky with the promise of ‘another stinker’. 1967Listener 9 Feb. 196/2 Stylistically, the Royal Victoria Hospital is indeed a stinker. 1979H. R. F. Keating Inspector Ghote draws Line xv. 149 The headache..has become a real stinker now.
c. In phr. to come a stinker = to come a cropper s.v. cropper3 (chiefly in the work of P. G. Wodehouse). slang.
1923J. Manchon Le Slang 293 To come a stinker, ramasser une pelle. 1936Wodehouse Laughing Gas iv. 41 And then..the engagement went and busted itself up. One moment, it was buzzing along like a two-year-old... The next, it had come a stinker. a1975― Sunset at Blandings (1977) iii. 26 Lack of the stuff [sc. wealth] is always the rock on which the frail craft of love comes a stinker where Blandings is concerned. |