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stinker-upper en · NOUN
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(derogatory, informal) Someone or something that causes the surrounding area to smell bad.
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:So I'd put that lovely stinker-upper in the garbage pail .
1956, Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, Rings Around Us, page 204:
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