stinkpot

[stingk-pot]

stink·pot

[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.

Origin:
1655–65; stink + pot1
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Stinkpot is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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World English Dictionary
stinkpot (ˈstɪŋkˌpɒt)
 
n
1.  slang a person or thing that stinks
2.  slang a person considered to be unpleasant
3.  another name for musk turtle
4.  military Also called: stink ball (formerly) a container filled with material that gives off noxious or suffocating vapours

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Slang Dictionary

stinkpot definition


  1. n.
    a baby with a dirty diaper. (Also a term of address.) : Come here, you little stinkpot. I'll fix you.
  2. n.
    anything smelly. : Why don't you drive this stinkpot into a service station and get it tuned?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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