stinker-upper

noun

Someone or something that causes the surrounding area to smell bad.

Meanings

nounstinker-upper (plural stinker-uppers)

plural stinker-uppers

  1. derogatoryinformalSomeone or something that causes the surrounding area to smell bad.

    So I'd put that lovely stinker-upper in the garbage pail .

    1956, Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, Rings Around Us, page 204
    2 more examples

    Poor Bo-Bo, stuck in there with those three bedroom stinker-uppers!

    2009, Darleen Bailey Beard, Heather Maione, Annie Glover is NOT a Tree Lover

    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.

    2015 August 24, Jimmy Thomson, “The Seaweed Subsidy”, in Hakai Institute: Science on the Coastal Margin
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