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English
Etymology
Coined by Theodore Hook, apparently Blend of stink + Trincomalee, perhaps because some cow-houses and dunghills stood on the original site.
Proper noun
Stinkomalee
- (UK, slang, derogatory, obsolete) The University of London.
References
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary