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单词 stink-pot
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stink-potn.

Etymology: < stink n. + pot n.1, after Dutch stinkpot.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈstink-pot.
1. = stinker n. 2. Obsolete.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > disinfecting > [noun] > disinfectant > jar containing disinfectants
stinker1665
stink-pot1665
1665 G. Harvey Disc. Plague (1673) 154 The Air may be purified..by burning of Stinck pots or Stinckers, as they call them, in contagious Lanes.
2. A hand-missile charged with combustibles emitting a suffocating smoke, used in boarding a ship for effecting a diversion while the assailants gain the deck.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > [noun] > grenade > smoke grenade
stink-pot1669
stink-ball1753
smoke grenadea1944
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. i. ii. 20 Ply your Hand-Granadoes and Stink-Pots.
1798 Z. Macaulay in Visctess. Knutsford Life & Lett. (1900) 185 She was prepared with stink-pots for boarding.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Stink-pot, a vessel used by the Chinese and Malay pirates to throw on board a vessel to suffocate the crew.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 24 Mar. 10/2 A piratical fleet closed round her, threw a stinkpot into the engine-room, and overpowered the crew.
in combination.1704 J. Swift Full Acct. Battel between Bks. in Tale of Tub 252 Paracelsus brought a Squadron of Stink-Pot-Flingers from the snowy Mountains of Rhœtia.in extended use.1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xi. 81 I'll teach you to empty your stink-pots on me.1913 J. G. Frazer Golden Bough: Scapegoat iii. 133 The girls discharge their stink-pots in the faces of their adversaries.figurative.1738 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses I. Ded. p. xxii Your Scurrilities, those Stink-pots of your offensive War.1778 J. Warner in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his Contemp. (1844) III. 317 Venice is a stink-pot, charged with the very virus of hell!1807 J. King (title) The Beauties of the Edinburgh Review, alias, the Stink-pot of Literature.
3. A sailor's name for a petrel. Cf. stinker n. 5. Also, in South Africa, applied to the Sooty Albatross, Phœbetria fuliginosa, and the Cape hen, Majaqueus æquinoctialis (Pettman Africanderisms).
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the world > animals > birds > order Procellariiformes > [noun] > member of family Procellariidae (petrel) > member of genus Macronectus
nelly1825
stinkard1850
stink-pot1865
stinker1896
the world > animals > birds > order Procellariiformes > [noun] > family Diomedeidae (albatross) > diomedea fusca (sooty albatross)
Quaker1776
sooty albatross1777
stinkard1850
stink-pot1865
stinker1896
the world > animals > birds > order Procellariiformes > [noun] > member of family Procellariidae (petrel) > member of genus Procellaria > procellaria aequinoctialis (Cape-hen)
Cape-hen1775
stinkard1850
stink-pot1865
stinker1896
1865 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip Oct. 239/1 The Stink-pot of sailors is the Black Petrel (Procellaria æquinoctialis, L.).
4. A name given to the musk turtle, Cinosternum odoratum or Aromochelys odorata.
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [noun] > suborder Cryptodira > family Kinosternidae > member of genus Kinosternon (stink-pot)
stink-pot1844
the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [noun] > suborder Cryptodira > family Kinosternidae > member of genus Sternothaerus (musk-turtle)
musk tortoise1842
musk turtle1868
sternothere1876
stink-pot1903
1844 J. E. Gray Catal. Tortoises Brit. Mus. 34 The Stink-Pot. Kinosternon odoratum.
1903 Nature 1 Oct. 531/2 Fourteen Stink-pot Terrapins.
5.
a. A term of abuse for a person or (rarely) a thing. slang.
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > [noun] > one who or that which
stewat1535
Stymphalist1595
stinkardc1600
stinker1607
stencha1616
smellera1627
carrionere1648
stinker1834
stink-pot1854
the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > as abused
warlockOE
swinec1175
beastc1225
wolf's-fista1300
avetrolc1300
congeonc1300
dirtc1300
slimec1315
snipec1325
lurdanc1330
misbegetc1330
sorrowa1350
shrew1362
jordan1377
wirlingc1390
frog?a1400
warianglea1400
wretcha1400
horcop14..
turdc1400
callet1415
lotterela1450
paddock?a1475
souter1478
chuff?a1500
langbain?c1500
cockatrice1508
sow1508
spink1508
wilrone1508
rook?a1513
streaker?a1513
dirt-dauber?1518
marmoset1523
babiona1529
poll-hatcheta1529
bear-wolf1542
misbegotten1546
pig1546
excrement1561
mamzer1562
chuff-cat1563
varlet1566
toada1568
mandrake1568
spider1568
rat1571
bull-beef1573
mole-catcher1573
suppository1573
curtal1578
spider-catcher1579
mongrela1585
roita1585
stickdirta1585
dogfish1589
Poor John1589
dog's facec1590
tar-boxa1592
baboon1592
pot-hunter1592
venom1592
porcupine1594
lick-fingers1595
mouldychaps1595
tripe1595
conundrum1596
fat-guts1598
thornback1599
land-rat1600
midriff1600
stinkardc1600
Tartar1600
tumbril1601
lobster1602
pilcher1602
windfucker?1602
stinker1607
hog rubber1611
shad1612
splay-foot1612
tim1612
whit1612
verdugo1616
renegado1622
fish-facea1625
flea-trapa1625
hound's head1633
mulligrub1633
nightmare1633
toad's-guts1634
bitch-baby1638
shagamuffin1642
shit-breech1648
shitabed1653
snite1653
pissabed1672
bastard1675
swab1687
tar-barrel1695
runt1699
fat-face1740
shit-sack1769
vagabond1842
shick-shack1847
soor1848
b1851
stink-pot1854
molie1871
pig-dog1871
schweinhund1871
wind-sucker1880
fucker1893
cocksucker1894
wart1896
so-and-so1897
swine-hound1899
motherfucker1918
S.O.B.1918
twat1922
mong1926
mucker1929
basket1936
cowson1936
zombie1936
meatball1937
shower1943
chickenshit1945
mugger1945
motherferyer1946
hooer1952
morpion1954
mother1955
mother-raper1959
louser1960
effer1961
salaud1962
gunk1964
scunge1967
1854 T. Woolner Let. 4 Oct. in Geo. Eliot Lett. (1954) II. 176 I will not..display the filthy contaminations of these hideous satyrs and smirking moralists—..stink pots of humanity.
1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist v. 271 Go away from here, he said rudely... Go away, you stink pot.
1928 D. H. Lawrence Let. Aug. (1932) 744 Whether I shall have the strength to put my nose into that stink-pot of an island [sc. England], I don't know.
1948 D. Ballantyne Cunninghams ii. xx. 267 They can call me miserable old stinkpot.
1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren ix. 155 These syllables are used..to turn a verb or adjective into a descriptive noun, as:..fuss-pot, stink-pot, [etc.].
1973 R. Ludlum Matlock Paper xii. 112 Nowhere does your signing this little stinkpot say you agree to retire from the scene.
b. A machine which emits foul exhaust fumes: esp. a truck or motor-boat. slang.
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > [noun] > one who or that which > specific
filthOE
fimea1475
devil's dunga1576
devil's dirt1578
sweat-pit1708
fetid gum1858
stink bomb1915
stinkweed1932
stink-pot1972
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > mechanically propelled vessels > [noun] > motor vessel > using specific fuel > emitting foul fumes
stink-pot1972
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor lorry, truck, or van > [noun] > truck or lorry > emitting foul exhaust
stink-pot1972
1972 B. Garfield Line of Succession (1974) ii. 155 Mario had..a hatred of stinkpot powerboats.
1977 H. Fast Immigrants i. 55 They're gone now, all of them [sc. fishing-boats with sails]. Nothing but stinkpots—I'm sorry—oil burners.
1978 D. Bagley Flyaway xxi. 179 The truck broke through..and it killed them... Lousy stinkpots! Never have liked them except when I'm in a hurry.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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