Petrel vs Stinker - What's the difference?
petrel | stinker |
Any of various species of black, grey, or white seabirds in the order Procellariiformes .
A person who stinks.
(slang) A contemptible person.
* I won't date Mary Jane again. I thought she was a stinker to leave before the end of the movie.
* {{quote-book
, year=1960
, author=
, title=(Jeeves in the Offing)
, section=chapter II
, passage=Never be a stinker , because if you are, though you may flourish for a time like a green bay tree, sooner or later retribution will overtake you.}}
(slang) Something difficult (e.g. a given puzzle) or unpleasant (e.g. negative review, nasty letter).
* Today's crossword is a stinker .
* {{quote-book
, year=1960
, author=
, title=(Jeeves in the Offing)
, section=chapter V
, passage=I number several authors among my aquaintance [...] and they invariably become all of a doodah when they read a stinker in the press about their latest effort.}}
* {{quote-book
, year=1960
, author=
, title=(Jeeves in the Offing)
, section=chapter X
, passage=I sat there seething with fury. And after I had seethed for a bit I rose from my chair, took pen in hand and wrote Bobbie a stinker'. [...] I accused her in set terms of giving me the heave-ho in order that she could mercenarily marry a richer man. I called her a carrot-topped Jezebel whom I was thankful to have got out of my hair. I... Oh, I can't remember what else I said but, as I say, it was a ' stinker .}}
(slang) Something of poor quality.
* April 19 2002 , Scott Tobias, AV Club Dark Tide [http://www.avclub.com/articles/dark-tide,72548/]
Any of several species of large Antarctic petrels which feed on blubber and carrion and have an offensive odour, such as the giant fulmar.
A chemist.
As nouns the difference between petrel and stinker
is that petrel is any of various species of black, grey, or white seabirds in the order procellariiformes while stinker is a person who stinks.petrel
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* Antarctic petrel * Atlantic petrel * Barau's petrel * Bermuda petrel * Bonin petrel * Bulwer's petrel * Chatham petrel * Cook's petrel * European storm petrel * Fea's petrel * Fiji petrel * Gould's petrel * Guadalupe storm petrel * Hawaiian petrel * Juan Fernandez petrel * Kerguelen petrel * Kermadec petrel * Leach's storm petrel * Madeira petrel * Madeiran storm petrel * Magellan diving petrel * Magenta petrel * Markham's storm petrel * Mas a Tierra petrel * Mascarene petrel * Matsudaira's storm petrel * Murphy's petrel * New Zealand storm petrel * Peruvian diving petrel * Phoenix petrel * Polynesian storm petrel * Providence petrel * Pycroft's petrel * South Georgia diving petrel * Stejneger's petrel * Swinhoe's storm petrel * Tahiti petrel * Tristram's storm petrel * Wilson's storm Petrel * Zino's petrel * ashy storm petrel * black storm petrel * black-bellied storm petrel * black-capped petrel * black-winged petrel * blue petrel * cape petrel * common diving petrel * dark-rumped petrel * diving petrel * fork-tailed storm petrel * fulmarine petrel * gadfly petrel * giant petrel * great-winged petrel * grey-backed storm petrel * herald petrel * least storm petrel * mottled petrel * northern giant petrel * ringed storm petrel * snow petrel * soft-plumaged petrel * southern giant petrel * storm petrel * wedge-rumped storm petrel * white-bellied storm petrel * white-chinned petrel * white-faced storm petrel * white-headed petrel * white-necked petrel * white-vented storm petrelSee also
* (wikipedia) * (Procellariiformes) * (Procellariiformes)Anagrams
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English
Noun
(en noun)- The barely-released stinker Dark Tide continues Stockwell’s fetishistic pattern, coming alive whenever it’s paddling among the sharks off the South African coast and settling in for a long snooze once it gets back on the boat or reaches dry land.