英:['stɪŋkpɒt]
美:[ 'stɪŋk,pɑt]
英:['stɪŋkpɒt]
美:[ 'stɪŋk,pɑt]
n.
盛臭物的容器
<口>发恶臭气味的人
(旧时海战中用的)恶臭弹
<美>(产于美国东南部的)香龟
Noun
1. a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible;
"only a rotter would do that"
"kill the rat"
"throw the bum out"
"you cowardly little pukes!"
"the British call a contemptible person a `git'"
2. small freshwater turtle having a strong musky odor
同时也有 stink-pot,1660年代,来自 stink 和 pot(n.1)。
The first known use of stinkpot was in 1669
1 "This city is full of stinkpots like our little friend here. Let your guard down, and they'll take you for everything you've got."
2 Now I was a stinkpot and a thief.
3 Labeling touchy new mothers “stinkpots”? Omitting the mother when charting the provenance of a grandchild?
4 Southern giant petrels, big black seabirds also called Antarctic giant petrels, giant fulmars, stinkers, and stinkpots, flew in formation.
5 Andrew Farren, a former trustee who lives near the Joels, worried that a stable would be “a stinkpot.”
6 Sure, I'm going out with him again, you little stinkpot.
7 "I hope it's better than that new kind of stinkpot you invented for choir-practice," remarked a cynic from the corner of the study.
8 Then this confounded stinkpot of a bombshell burst in our midst.
9 They flung the literary stinkpot with great accuracy.
10 I told him what had happened, and you were right, you little stinkpot.
11 “That’s somewhere about it, or some stinkpots to heave aboard, or maybe, if they have got one, for a barge or pinnace with a boat’s gun.”
12 They are getting the stinkpots ready for us, I suppose.”
13 "The little stinkpot has to have a place to play!" she exclaimed.
14 In the course of the argument cannonballs, scimitars, boomerangs, blunderbusses, stinkpots, meatchoppers, umbrellas, catapults, knuckledusters, sandbags, lumps of pig iron were resorted to and blows were freely exchanged.
15 if I ever get filthy rich, I'm going to buy myself a stinkpot and take up fishing
2 卑鄙家伙
4 动胸龟科