stinkpot

[ stingk-pot ]

noun

1. Also called stinkball. a jar containing combustibles or other materials that generate offensive and suffocating vapors, formerly used in warfare.
2. Informal. a stinker; meany.
3. a common musk turtle, Sternotherus odoratus, of the eastern and southern U.S., that sometimes climbs trees along the water's edge.

stinkpot

/ ˈstɪŋkˌpɒt /

noun

1. slang.
   a person or thing that stinks
2. slang.
   a person considered to be unpleasant
3. See musk turtle
   another name for musk turtle
4. Also calledstink ball military (formerly) a container filled with material that gives off noxious or suffocating vapours

Word History and Origins

Origin of stinkpot¹

First recorded in 1655–65; stink + pot ¹

Example Sentences

"Stinkpot" she called it, when acknowledging foul elements in the composition and the harm it did to the unskilful balist.

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Not long ago an effective weapon called "stinkpot" was in use.

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Paracelsus brought a squadron of stinkpot-flingers from the snowy mountains of Rhaetia.

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I am sorry to see that Erasmus imitated his enemies and at times was ambidextrous in the use of the literary stinkpot.

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Paracelsus brought a squadron of stinkpot-flingers from the snowy mountains of Rhætia.

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