单词 | stink-pot |
释义 | stink-potn.ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. 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). ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. 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