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stinkpot

/stingk-pot/US // ˈstɪŋkˌpɒt //UK // (ˈstɪŋkˌpɒt) //

臭水沟,臭锅,臭罐,臭豆腐

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Also called stinkball. a jar containing combustibles or other materials that generate offensive and suffocating vapors, formerly used in warfare.
    • : Informal. a stinker; meany.
    • : a common musk turtle, Sternotherus odoratus, of the eastern and southern U.S., that sometimes climbs trees along the water's edge.

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Examples

  • "Stinkpot" she called it, when acknowledging foul elements in the composition and the harm it did to the unskilful balist.

  • Not long ago an effective weapon called "stinkpot" was in use.

  • Paracelsus brought a squadron of stinkpot-flingers from the snowy mountains of Rhaetia.

  • I am sorry to see that Erasmus imitated his enemies and at times was ambidextrous in the use of the literary stinkpot.

  • Paracelsus brought a squadron of stinkpot-flingers from the snowy mountains of Rhætia.