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stinkpot
CIDE DICTIONARY
stinkpot, n.
- An earthen jar charged with powder, grenades, and other materials of an offensive and suffocating smell, -- sometimes used in boarding an enemy's vessel. [1913 Webster]
- A vessel in which disinfectants are burned. [1913 Webster]
- The musk turtle, or musk tortoise. See under Musk. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
stinkpot, n. sl.
1 a term of contempt for a person.
2 a vehicle or boat that emits foul exhaust fumes.
1 a term of contempt for a person.
2 a vehicle or boat that emits foul exhaust fumes.
ROGET THESAURUS
stinkpot
Fetor
N fetor, bad, smell, bad odor, stench, stink, foul odor, malodor, empyreuma, mustiness, rancidity, foulness, stoat, polecat, skunk, assafoetida, fungus, garlic, stinkpot, fitchet, fitchew, fourmart, peccary, acridity, fetid, strong-smelling, high, bad, strong, fulsome, offensive, noisome, rank, rancid, reasty, tainted, musty, fusty, frouzy, olid, olidous, nidorous, smelling, stinking, putrid, suffocating, mephitic, empyreumatic.For further exploring for "stinkpot" in Webster Dictionary Online