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• stink pot — stink ball or stink pot noun (historical) A ball or jar filled with a stinking, combustible mixture, used to create a suffocating smoke when boarding an enemy s vessel • • • Main Entry: ↑stink stink pot see ↑stink ball above. • • • Main Entry:… …   Useful english dictionary

• stink|pot — «STIHNGK POT», noun. 1. a potlike metal vessel filled with combustibles that produce a suffocating, bad smelling smoke, formerly flung at an enemy, especially in naval warfare, to drive him into the open or overcome his capacity to resist assault …   Useful english dictionary

• stink-pot, you —    Used by one student to another, both of them males, in James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man. ‘Go away, you stinkpot. And you are a stinkpot’ …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

• stink ball — or stink pot noun (historical) A ball or jar filled with a stinking, combustible mixture, used to create a suffocating smoke when boarding an enemy s vessel • • • Main Entry: ↑stink …   Useful english dictionary

• fuss-pot —    Used to a person who fusses overmuch about trifling matters. With ‘fuss pot’ one may compare ‘bigpot’, ‘swankpot’, ‘stink pot’. etc., terms mainly used by children. ‘You old fuss pot’ is spoken by one woman to another in Rebecca, by Daphne du… …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

• Fire stink — Fire Fire (f[imac]r), n. [OE. fir, fyr, fur AS. f[=y]r; akin to D. vuur, OS. & OHG. fiur, G. feuer, Icel. f[=y]ri, f[=u]rr, Gr. py^r, and perh. to L. purus pure, E. pure Cf. {Empyrean}, {Pyre}.] 1. The evolution of light and heat in the… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Fire pot — Fire Fire (f[imac]r), n. [OE. fir, fyr, fur AS. f[=y]r; akin to D. vuur, OS. & OHG. fiur, G. feuer, Icel. f[=y]ri, f[=u]rr, Gr. py^r, and perh. to L. purus pure, E. pure Cf. {Empyrean}, {Pyre}.] 1. The evolution of light and heat in the… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• stinkpot — stink•pot [[t]ˈstɪŋkˌpɒt[/t]] n. 1) a jar of combustibles that generate offensive and suffocating vapors, formerly used in warfare 2) Informal. a mean person; stinker 3) ram a common musk turtle, Sternotherus odoratus, of the eastern and southern …   From formal English to slang

• fuss-budget —    Used to a person who fusses overmuch about trifling matters. With ‘fuss pot’ one may compare ‘bigpot’, ‘swankpot’, ‘stink pot’. etc., terms mainly used by children. ‘You old fuss pot’ is spoken by one woman to another in Rebecca, by Daphne du… …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

• Stinkpot — Stink pot , n. 1. An earthen jar charged with powder, grenades, and other materials of an offensive and suffocating smell, sometimes used in boarding an enemy s vessel. [1913 Webster] 2. A vessel in which disinfectants are burned. [1913 Webster]… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English