Etymology

shtinker

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Today it means: collaborator; traitor; informer Full definition →

Yiddish שטינקער
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The story

  1. Yiddish · borrowed fromשטינקער
  2. English todayshtinker

From Yiddish שטינקער (shtinker).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.