Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small musk turtle (Sternotherus odoratus) of eastern North America, having a domed carapace and inhabiting ponds and small streams.
- noun Slang One who is despised.
- noun Slang A motorboat.
- noun An earthenware jar containing combustibles emitting a suffocating smoke, formerly used in naval warfare.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pot or jar of stinking materials; a chamber-pot.
- noun A receptacle containing a disinfectant. See the quotation under stinker.
- noun A stinkball.
- noun The musk-turtle, Cinosternum odoratum or Aromochelys odorata, a stinking kind of turtle common in some parts of the United States.
- noun A name given by sailors to the giant petrel, Ossifraga gigantea, on account of its rank, musty smell.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An earthen jar charged with powder, grenades, and other materials of an offensive and suffocating smell, -- sometimes used in boarding an enemy's vessel.
- noun A vessel in which disinfectants are burned.
- noun (Zoöl.) The musk turtle, or musk tortoise. See under
Musk .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
annoying ,bad or undesirable person - noun A species of
turtle from southeasternCanada , Sternotherus odoratus - noun Alternative name for the common musk turtle
- noun Alternative name for the southern giant petrel
- noun Slang term referring to a
motorboat (usually used by sailors)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small freshwater turtle having a strong musky odor
- noun a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
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Examples
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I do suspect it contains a bigger stinkpot, and surely all the people who want to hang this government can accept that getting a bigger stinkpot is a good idea?
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The stinkpot turtle exhibits this pattern of sex determination.
Turtle 2008
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Candy, is Craig the stinkpot in the middle of the room, speaking metaphorically, of course, for the Republican Party at this time?
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They do ride one of the really old stinkpot buses, usually 815, when the trolley is not in use on the route. fdr
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Paracelsus brought a squadron of stinkpot-flingers from the snowy mountains of Rhaetia.
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Sitting on one of the stonework terraces of the ramshackle Royal Caribbean Hotel, Lawson eyed a cocky little stinkpot chugging up toward Coastown under big mackerel clouds.
The Season of the Machete Patterson, James, 1947- 1977
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Sitting on one of the stonework terraces of the ramshackle Royal Caribbean Hotel, Lawson eyed a cocky little stinkpot chugging up toward Coastown under big mackerel clouds.
The Season Of The Machete Patterson, James, 1947- 1977
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If she was in a stinkpot steamer, that would be different.
Tai-Pan Clavell, James 1966
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Then this confounded stinkpot of a bombshell burst in our midst.
Lalage's Lovers George A. Birmingham 1907
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Look you, Herr Doctor: months we have been on this cruise, yes, more than three months out of Heligoland, penned together in this ramshackle stinkpot, or isolated here in this God-forgotten hole, seeing nothing of life, hearing nothing of the world but what little the radio tells us -- sick of the very sight of one another's faces!
The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf Louis Joseph Vance 1906
reesetee commented on the word stinkpot
Also stink-pot, stinker, or stinkard. Nickname for the Giant-Petrel.
September 1, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word stinkpot
"STINKPOT, a fire-fork, made of offensive combustibles, which is used at sieges." (citation in list description) See also stink-pot.
October 9, 2008