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One who stinks.
Skunks are the worst stinkers in the animal kingdom.Category:English terms with usage examples#STINKER
(slang Category:English slang#STINKER) A contemptible person or thing.
- 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
  "Stop squallin', you little stinker!" She struck the child with her open hand across the face.
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- 1952, C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader:
  "But it's far worse for me," said Edmund, "because you'll at least have a room of your own and I shall have to share a bedroom with that record stinker, Eustace."
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- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter II, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
  Never be a stinker, because if you are, though you may flourish for a time like a green bay tree, sooner or later retribution will overtake you.
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- 2011, Steven Z. Kussin, Doctor, Your Patient Will See You Now, page 241:
  When you are colonized by dangerous bacteria their presence in your body does no damage. You become a reservoir for those little stinkers.
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(slang Category:English slang#STINKER) Something difficult (e.g. a given puzzle) or unpleasant (e.g. negative review, nasty letter).
Today's crossword is a stinker.Category:English terms with usage examples#STINKER
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter V, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
  I number several authors among my acquaintance […] and they invariably become all of a doodah when they read a stinker in the press about their latest effort.
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- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter X, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
  I sat there seething with fury. And after I had seethed for a bit I rose from my chair, took pen in hand and wrote Bobbie a stinker. […] I accused her in set terms of giving me the heave-ho in order that she could mercenarily marry a richer man. I called her a carrot-topped Jezebel whom I was thankful to have got out of my hair. I... Oh, I can't remember what else I said but, as I say, it was a stinker.
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(British Category:British English#STINKER, slang Category:English slang#STINKER) Something of poor quality.
- 2002 April 19, Scott Tobias, “Dark Tide”, in AV Club‎:
  The barely-released stinker Dark Tide continues Stockwell’s fetishistic pattern, coming alive whenever it’s paddling among the sharks off the South African coast and settling in for a long snooze once it gets back on the boat or reaches dry land.
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- 2021 September 30, Ted McCormick, “Steven Pinker, Rational Thinker”, in Slate‎:
  Steven Pinker, Rational Thinker: His new book is a stinker. [title]
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- 2022 October 17, Stuart Heritage, “Now it’s over, let’s come out and say it: The Rings of Power was a stinker”, in The Guardian‎:
  Now it’s over, let’s come out and say it: The Rings of Power was a stinker [title]
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Any of several species of large Antarctic petrels which feed on blubber and carrion and have an offensive odour, such as the giant fulmar.
(slang Category:English slang#STINKER) A chemist.
(Australia Category:Australian English#STINKER, slang Category:English slang#STINKER) A hot day.
Synonym: scorcher
(Australia Category:Australian English#STINKER, slang Category:English slang#STINKER) A black eye.
(Australia Category:Australian English#STINKER, informal Category:English informal terms#STINKER) A western grey kangaroo.
(colloquial Category:English colloquialisms#STINKER) A giant petrel.
(colloquial Category:English colloquialisms#STINKER) An eastern long-necked turtle (which emits a foul-smelling musk when threatened).