Crossword clues for stinker
stinker
- Tough puzzle
- Bugs Bunny, according to Bugs Bunny
- Word in a Bugs Bunny catchphrase
- Puzzle that's more hard than fun, say
- Film that rates no stars
- What Bugs Bunny often calls himself
- What Bugs Bunny calls himself
- Unpleasant person — difficult task
- Really tough puzzle, say
- Movie that rates no stars
- "Ain't I a ___?" (Bugs Bunny line)
- No-goodnik / Patches, as a sweater
- Tough puzzle, informally
- Movie that rates 0 stars
- No-goodnik, to Bugs Bunny
- Tough problem
- Anything that gives off an offensive odor (especially a cheap cigar)
- (informal) an artifact (especially an automobile) that is defective or unsatisfactory
- A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
- Scoundrel
- Unpleasant person - difficult task
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stinker \Stink"er\, n.
One who, or that which, stinks.
(Zo["o]l.) Any one of the several species of large antarctic petrels which feed on blubber and carrion and have an offensive odor, as the giant fulmar.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
as a term of abuse (often banteringly), c.1600, agent noun from stink (v.); also in the same sense was stinkard (c.1600). Extended form stinkeroo attested by 1934.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who stinks. 2 (context slang English) A contemptible person.
WordNet
n. a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible; "only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call a contemptible person a `git'" [syn: rotter, dirty dog, rat, skunk, stinkpot, bum, puke, crumb, lowlife, scum bag, so-and-so, git]
anything that gives off an offensive odor (especially a cheap cigar)
an artifact (especially an automobile) that is defective or unsatisfactory [syn: lemon]
Wikipedia
Stinker may refer to:
- Southern giant petrel, a large seabird of the southern oceans
- Swamp wallaby of eastern Australia
- Stinker Point, Elephant Island, Antarctica
- a nickname for some Pitts Special aerobatic airplanes, due to the picture of a skunk painted on them
- a nickname for Gollum, a character in The Lord of the Rings novels
- Harold Pinker, a character in P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories also known as "Stinker" Pinker
Usage examples of "stinker".
I mean, here were we, Stinker Pinker and Bertram Wooster, buddies who had known each other virtually from the egg, and we were talking like a couple of strangers making conversation on a train.
I was talking to Stinker Pinker just now, and he says that Stiffy Byng has something she wants me to do for her.
I remember Stinker Pinker telling me once that toward the end of his time at Oxford he was down in Bethnal Green spreading the light, and a costermonger kicked him in the stomach.
They wanted to get his credits away from him, but he may have been a Wet Stinker from Amazonas Triste or he may have been one of those little tiny men, about the size of a walnut, from the Solid Planet.
To the Tines, the stinkers had been painfully loud and sometimes even frightening, but not the mind-destroying chaos of the wolf-nest attack.
The Norms did not put them there, nor did the Stinkers, the Delinks nor, in fairness, the Geeks.
It could mean that the Geeks realize it, perhaps know that a Stinker, in full command of his talent, stands between them and world dominance.
Stinkers succeeded in saving fifty-two males and thirty-eight females before the Geeks woke up to the danger.
When those airborne gimmicks blew, there was no telepathic beam to turn them into psychotics or us into Stinkers.
Geek weapons, outgunned and outranged anything the Stinkers possessed.
The Stinkers never did anything indictable and they killed only in self-defense.
Accidents can occur, unforeseen contingencies arise for which these Stinkers are not necessarily responsible.
The reputation of all you invincible Stinkers would be gone forever, a legend shattered and the superiority of a new dispensation established forever.
All right, damn you, the report may not be scientific, maybe these Stinkers did just sit around feeling things, but the conclusions are logical.
According to what the Stinkers felt, it was a gentle, peace-loving and highly advanced life-form.