STINKPOT


Meaning of STINKPOT in English

/stingk"pot'/ , n.

1. a jar containing combustibles or other materials that generate offensive and suffocating vapors, formerly used in warfare.

2. Informal. a stinker; meany.

3. a common musk turtle, Sternotherus odoratus, of the eastern and southern U.S., that sometimes climbs trees along the water's edge.

[ 1655-65; STINK + POT 1 ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .