Crossword-Solution: STINKPOT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Stinkpot | n. | An earthen jar charged with powder, grenades, and other materials of an offensive and suffocating smell, -- sometimes used in boarding an enemy's vessel. |
| Stinkpot | n. | A vessel in which disinfectants are burned. |
| Stinkpot | n. | The musk turtle, or musk tortoise. See under Musk. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “STINKPOT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Bad person above all others joins up | 1 answer |
| Patron of people writing with quill pens? | 1 answer |
| Turtle whose scent glands release a foul odor | 1 answer |
| person or thing that stinks | 1 answer |
| Despicable person | 21 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with STINKPOT (4)
Aye, saw the hero's dying smile Of triumph, when his cruise was o'er, And to the vast eternal shore, Launched forth by death's o'erwhelming gale His gallant spirit spread its sail! O'er flowing bowl with might and main, He fought his battle's o'er again, Talked of chain shot, and "Stinkpot's" stench, And hated cordially the French, Whom he believed were but created To be by sailors killed and hated What e'er he was, what passage o'er, He took to the mysterious shore, Old Charon never cleft the wave.
This is because your writer uses his kazoo in getting even with his supposed enemy--he flings the rhetorical stinkpot with precision, and his grievances come into a prominence all out of keeping with their importance.
Scandal and defamation in war-time are imminent; the literary stinkpot rivals the lyddite of the enemy; fever, envy, malice and murderous tongues strike in the dark and retreat in a miasmic fog.
Some fanatics certainly “came” for the companies with swords, and one man had the temerity to hurl a ‘stinkpot’ at a lieutenant, but these were quite the exceptions, and were quickly dispatched.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2004–2021).