different between stinger vs stinker

English

Etymology

sting +? -er. Both figurative and literal senses appeared in the 16th century.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?st???(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?st???/
• Rhymes: -???(r)

Noun

stinger (plural stingers)

1. A pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack.
2. Anything that is used to sting, as a means of attack.
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IV

     The thing stopped then and looked at me a moment as much as to say: "Why this thing has a stinger! I must be careful." And then it reached out its long neck and opened its mighty jaws and grabbed for me; but I wasn't there.

3. Anything, such as an insult, that stings mentally or psychologically.
4. A cocktail of brandy and crème de menthe.
5. A portable bed of nails to puncture car tires, used by police and military forces.
6. A minor neurological injury of the spine characterized by a shooting or stinging pain down one arm, followed by numbness and weakness.
7. A station identifier on television or radio played between shows.
8. A scene shown on films or television shows after the credits.
9. (slang) A nonlethal grenade using rubber instead of shrapnel, more commonly called a sting grenade.
10. (slang) A final note played at the end of a military march.
11. (slang, television and film) An extension cord.
12. (slang, West Country, Bristol) A stinging nettle.
13. Chironex fleckeri, an extremely venomous Australian box jellyfish.

Synonyms

• (pointed portion of an insect or arachnid): sting
• (device used to puncture car tyres): spike strip

Translations

Anagrams

• Ginters, Tigners, Tsering, resting, ringest, tingers

Swedish

Verb

stinger

1. present tense of stinga.

Anagrams

• tigerns

English

Etymology

stink +? -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /st??.k?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /st??.k?/
• Rhymes: -??k?(r)

Noun

stinker (plural stinkers)

1. One who stinks.

2. (slang) A contemptible person.
   • I won't date Mary Jane again. I thought she was a stinker to leave before the end of the movie.
3. (slang) Something difficult (e.g. a given puzzle) or unpleasant (e.g. negative review, nasty letter).
4. (Britain, slang) Something of poor quality.
   • April 19 2002, Scott Tobias, AV Club Dark Tide[2]

     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.

5. Any of several species of large Antarctic petrels which feed on blubber and carrion and have an offensive odour, such as the giant fulmar.
6. (slang) A chemist.
7. (Australia, slang) A hot day.

Synonyms

• (a person who stinks): stinkard
• (a contemptible person): creep, rotter, scoundrel, stinkard
• (something difficult or unpleasant): hatchet job, nastygram
• (something of poor quality): clunker

Derived terms

• wanker (fish)

Related terms

• stink

Translations

Anagrams

• Inkster, Kinters, Kirsten, Kistner, Kristen, reknits, skinter, striken, tinkers

Swedish

Verb

stinker

1. present of stinka

Anagrams

• Kerstin, kristen, kristne, skrinet