Stinker

Definition: Stinker

Stinker

Noun

1. 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!".

2. Anything that gives off an offensive odor (especially a cheap cigar).

3. (informal) an artifact (especially an automobile) that is defective or unsatisfactory.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stinker" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1906. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Stinker

Crosswords: Stinker

German (stinker, stinkers).

Hey Stinker don't get too far ahead (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

You're a stinker and you stink (The Lion in Winter; writing credit: James Goldman)

It calls for a sinker, not a stinker! (Sabrina the Animated Series; writing credit: Josh Stolberg)

You know, Harry, sometimes you're alright, and the rest of the time, you're just a stinker. (To Have and Have Not; writing credit: Preston Sturges)

See, be a thinker, not a stinker. (Rocky; writing credit: Sylvester Stallone)

Line and Stinker Hook (1958)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Hook Line and Stinker (reference)

• Hook, line and stinker (reference)

• Stinker from Space (reference)

• Tashi and the Big Stinker (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Stinker [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

njeri i përçmuar (insect, scullion), gjë e pakëndshme. (various references)

Arabic 

‏شخص نتن. (various references)

Bulgarian 

гад (louse, reptile), нещо лошо (ill). (various references)

Czech

syèák (stinkard), prevít (bugger), mizera (bastard, blighter, bugger, dog, horror, rascal, rat, scamp, scoundrel, villain), dřina (drudgery, elbow grease, fag, grind, grindery, labor, labour, moil, slog, sweat, toil). (various references)

Danish

ildelugtende fisk (bilgy fish). (various references)

Farsi 

ادم متعفن وپست , شخص نفرت انگیز. (various references)

French

salaud (stinkard, stinking), poisson fangeux. (various references)

German

Stinker (stinkers). (various references)

Greek 

βρωμιάρησ (mucky, slobberer), αλλοιωμένο ψάρι (bilgy fish). (various references)

Hebrew 

מסריח (fetid, malodorous, putrid, rank, smelly, stale, stinking), א�"ם � בז�", סרחן (sinner). (various references)

Hungarian

szarházi (rotter, s.o.b., turd), dög nehéz, büdös ember (stinkard). (various references)

Italian

rogna (itch, mange, nuisance, scab, scabies), puzzone, pesce con sapore di fango (bilgy fish), fetente (disgusting), carogna (carrion, you skunk). (various references)

Manx

feer ghoillee, breimen (stinkard). (various references)

Pig Latin

inkerstay.(various references)

Portuguese

peixe viscoso (bilgy fish), ordinário (base, base-minded, bum, common, everyday, garden, ordinary, penny-a-line, run-of-the-mill, twopenny, usual, vulgar), indivíduo que cheira mal, indivíduo desprezível (bondservant, bondslave, slave), coisa que cheira mal. (various references)

Romanian

care miroase urât (fishy), împuţit (niffy, stinking). (various references)

Russian 

вонючка (skunt, stinkard). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

smrdljivac (stinkard), odvratna osoba (creep, sickener, varmint). (various references)

Spanish

pescado hediondo (bilgy fish), mal bicho, canalla (blackguard, cad, cur, heel, hound, mob, outsider, rabble, rat, riff raff, scab, scalawag, scallawag, scallywag, scapegrace, scoundrel, skunk, swine, you cad). (various references)

Swedish

skitdålig grej, illaluktande fisk (bilgy fish), äckel (disgust, disrelish, loathing, louses, nausea, repulsive chap). (various references)

Turkish

sinir bozucu tip (blighter), zor şey, pis kokan şey (stinkpot), leş gibi kokan kimse (stinkard), kötü koku (reek), iğrenç kokan kimse (stinkard), iğrenç şey (aversion, sickener), gıcık (snappish), çok kalitesiz şey. (various references)

Turkmen 

aсkaw. (various references)

Ukrainian

вонючка (stinkard), підла людина (hanger, scut). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người hôi (stinkard), người đáng ghét (rotter), cái trêu ngươi. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "stinker": stinkers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stinker" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Schinke, Schneer, schneken, slinker, Steenkirk, Stenka, stiener, stince, stinken, stinkier, stonker. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: reknits, tinkers.

-1 letter: estrin, inerts, inkers, insert, inters, kiters, niters, nitres, reinks, reknit, sinker, sinter, strike, tinker, triens, trikes, trines.

-2 letters: inert, inker, inset, inter, keirs, kerns, kiers, kines, kirns, kiter, kites, knits, neist, nerts, niter, nites, nitre, reink, reins, rents, resin, rinks, rinse, risen, rites, senti, serin, siker, siren, skein, skier, skint, skirt, skite.

+1 letter: instroke, keratins, kernites, knitters, rethinks, stinkers, stinkier, stricken, thinkers, tinklers, trinkets.

+2 letters: ankerites, crankiest, instrokes, knurliest, restoking, snarkiest, streaking, streeking, tinkerers, turnpikes, twinklers.

+3 letters: antismoker, antistrike, crinkliest, interknits, interlinks, interlocks, interworks, keratinous, marketings, ministroke, nitpickers, overthinks, restacking, restocking, restricken, restriking, rethinkers, skeltering, skittering, skywritten, streakings, thickeners, trickiness, trinketers, triskelion, trucklines, underskirt, wrinkliest.

+4 letters: antismokers, asterisking, awestricken, barkentines, caretakings, countersink, huckstering, keratinizes, keystroking, miniskirted, ministrokes, misstricken, networkings, overtasking, persnickety, printmakers, resketching, ringstraked, streakiness, strikebound, tricksiness, trinketries, triskelions, trunkfishes, underskirts, undertricks, waterskiing, winterkills.