stinker-upper

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English

Noun

stinker-upper (plural stinker-uppers)

  1. (informal, derogatory) Someone or something that causes the surrounding area to smell bad.
    • 1956, Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, Rings Around Us, page 204:
      So I'd put that lovely stinker-upper in the garbage pail .
    • 2009, Darleen Bailey Beard, Heather Maione, Annie Glover is NOT a Tree Lover:
      Poor Bo-Bo, stuck in there with those three bedroom stinker-uppers!
    • 2015 August 24, Jimmy Thomson, “The Seaweed Subsidy”, in Hakai Institute: Science on the Coastal Margin:
      Seaweed, the much-maligned tangler of swimmers’ feet, stinker-upper of otherwise pristine beaches, and thrower-atter of unsuspecting sisters’ backs, may be finally getting the credit it deserves.