stinker
/ˈstɪŋkə
/noun informal
1A person or thing that smells very bad.My dog is a stinker and these things are the only thing that will get rid of the odor quickly without leaving a gross flowery smell behind.
1.1A contemptible or very unpleasant person or thing: have those little stinkers been bullying you?...
- The beauty of the NFL, besides the game itself and all the eye candy surrounding it, is that even if your team looks like a stinker, it can wind up smelling like roses.
- I do beat up my brothers sometimes, but only because I like them, have their best interests at heart, and the stinkers deserve it.
- The setting: the annual Raspberry awards, ‘Hollywood's least coveted trophies’ for cinematic stinkers, given out by 700 members of the nonprofit Golden Raspberry Award Foundation.
Synonyms
unpleasant person
informal swine, beast, pig, rat, creep, bastard, louse, snake, snake in the grass, skunk, dog, weasel, lowlife, scumbag, heel, stinkpot, bad lot, son of a bitch, s.o.b., nasty piece of work
British informal scrote
Irish informal spalpeen
North American informal rat fink, fink, dirtbag
Australian informal dingo
New Zealand informal kuri
informal, dated rotter, hound, bounder, blighter
vulgar slang shit, sod
dated cad
archaic blackguard, dastard, knave, varlet, whoreson
nightmare, horror
informal beast, pig, swine, bummer, bastard, bitch
Australian/New Zealand informal cow
vulgar slang bugger, sod
1.2A difficult task: Tackled the crossword yet? It’s a stinker...
- This puzzle is a stinker.
