stinkpot

American  

[stingk-pot] / ˈstɪŋkˌpɒt /

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.

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stinkpot British  

/ ˈstɪŋkˌpɒt /

noun

1. slang a person or thing that stinks

2. slang a person considered to be unpleasant

3. another name for musk turtle

4. Also called: stink ball.  military (formerly) a container filled with material that gives off noxious or suffocating vapours

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Etymology

Origin of stinkpot

First recorded in 1655–65; stink + pot ¹

Example Sentences

In the well-established U.S. tradition, there was plenty of wall-to-wall luxury in the 500-odd models on display, from the lowliest stinkpot to the "queen" of the show�a 45-ft.

From Time Magazine Archive

"The little stinkpot has to have a place to play!" she exclaimed.

From Four and Twenty Beds by Vogel, Nancy

Then this confounded stinkpot of a bombshell burst in our midst.

From Lalage's Lovers by Birmingham, George A.

They flung the literary stinkpot with great accuracy.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Hubbard, Elbert

But in some degree it was merely a development of the "stinkpot" which the Chinese have employed for years.

From Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons by Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John)