Definitions for stinker

stinker stink·er

Spelling: [sting-ker]
IPA: /ˈstɪŋ kər/

Stinker is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 238 anagrams from letters in stinker (eiknrst).

Definitions for stinker

noun

  1. a person or thing that stinks.
  2. Informal. a mean or despicable person; louse.
  3. Informal. something, especially some form of entertainment, of inferior quality.
  4. Informal. something difficult:
  5. any device emitting an offensive odor, as a stink bomb or stinkpot.
  6. Dialect. any of several large petrels.

Origin of stinker

1600-10; 1920-25 for def 2; stink + -er1

Examples for stinker

The crowd had already given Jurgis a name—they called him "he stinker."

Pretty well by Russian standards—a free peasant was known as a smerd, meaning “stinker.”

He's always riding Skinny about one thing or another, but Skinny never gets mad and it's a good thing for stinker, too.

Bob got a stinker, and poor I received a chancery-suit upon the nob.

A bit more urgent is how to extricate ourselves from this stinker of a GECSTGD.

A 'stinker' followed, to which we could only retaliate by posting sentries the next day to warn us of the General's approach.

When the two first met in 1918, Roosevelt called Churchill a “stinker.”

"That fellow's a stinker," Wick decided, never to change his mind.

The second stanza (which carries over to the third) of that Ode is what is technically called a 'stinker.'

And the stench of desperation from retailers, fearful that the vital Christmas holiday season will be a stinker.

Word Value for stinker
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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