different between stinker vs stinka

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

English

Noun

stinka (plural stinkas)

1. (Tyneside) Someone who smells badly, a stinker.
2. (Tyneside) Someone who is ugly or repulsive.

   How man, get off is ye propa stinka!

Anagrams

• Atkins, Tanski, astink, takins

Swedish

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *stinkwan?. Compare English stink, Dutch and German stinken.

Verb

stinka (present stinker, preterite stank, imperative stink)

1. (intransitive) To smell bad; to stink, reek
   • 1917 translation, the Bible, Exodus 7:18

   • 1917, Dan Andersson, Svarta Ballader, Tiggar-Stinas middagssång

   • 1926, Hjalmar Bergman, Farmor och Vår Herre

2. (intransitive) to give impression of foul play or dishonesty; to stink
   • 2000, Claes Arvidsson, Svenska Dagbladet - editor's column

3. (transitive in combination with verb particle ner) make something stink or smell bad
   • 1933, August Strindberg, Gustav Vasa

Usage notes

• The supine stunkit occurs occasionally, but has also been claimed not to exist.

Conjugation

Related terms

• stank

Anagrams

• ankist, inkast, kantis, kistan