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stinkpot

[stingk-pot]

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noun

Also called stinkball.��a jar containing combustibles or other materials that generate offensive and suffocating vapors, formerly used in warfare.
Informal.��a stinker; meany.
a common musk turtle, Sternotherus odoratus, of the eastern and southern U.S., that sometimes climbs trees along the water's edge.

stinkpot

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slang��a person or thing that stinks
slang��a person considered to be unpleasant
another name for musk turtle
Also called: stink ball.��military (formerly) a container filled with material that gives off noxious or suffocating vapours

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First recorded in 1655–65; stink + pot ¹

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Andrew Farren, a former trustee who lives near the Joels, worried that a stable would be “a stinkpot.”

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Now I was a stinkpot and a thief.

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Southern giant petrels, big black seabirds also called Antarctic giant petrels, giant fulmars, stinkers, and stinkpots, flew in formation.

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Labeling touchy new mothers “stinkpots”? Omitting the mother when charting the provenance of a grandchild?

Sure, I'm going out with him again, you little stinkpot.

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