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

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Example Sentences

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stinkpot

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

From Lalage's Lovers by George A. Birmingham

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 Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot

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

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers by Elbert Hubbard

I told him what had happened, and you were right, you little stinkpot.

From Four and Twenty Beds by Nancy Vogel

This is because your writer uses his kazoo in getting even with his supposed enemy—he flings the rhetorical stinkpot with precision, and his grievances come into a prominence all out of keeping with their importance.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians by Elbert Hubbard

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