Meaning

11 senses
  1. One who stinks.

    Skunks are the worst stinkers in the animal kingdom.

    Stinker, Stinkerin

    воню́чкаvonjúčka

    a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible

  2. (slang)A contemptible person or thing.

  3. (slang)Something difficult (e.g. a given puzzle) or unpleasant (e.g. negative review, nasty letter).

    Today's crossword is a stinker.

  4. (UK, slang)Something of poor quality.

  5. Any of several species of large Antarctic petrels which feed on blubber and carrion and have an offensive odour, such as the giant fulmar.

  6. (slang)A chemist.

  7. (Australia, slang)A hot day.

  8. (Australia, slang)A black eye.

  9. (Australia, informal)A western grey kangaroo.

  10. (colloquial)A giant petrel.

  11. (colloquial)An eastern long-necked turtle (which emits a foul-smelling musk when threatened).

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Is your friend a stinker?

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Translations

6 languages
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Deutsch
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Origin

From stink + -er.

From stink + -er.

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Forms

plural: stinkers
Singularstinker
Pluralstinkers

regular

Synonyms

21 synonyms
a contemptible person:creeprotterscoundrelstinkard
something difficult or unpleasant:hatchet jobnastygram
something of poor quality:clunker
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words

See also

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