Sticker vs Stinker - What's the difference?
sticker | stinker |
something that sticks
an adhesive label or decal
a brand, label, or company, especially one making and distributing records
a price tag
the listed price (also sticker price)
(informal) a burr or seed pod that catches in fur or clothing
a wooden strip placed between courses of lumber to allow air circulation. (also 'kiln sticker')
(colloquial, dated) That which causes one to stick; that which puzzles or poses.
(music) A small wooden rod in an organ which connects (in part) a key and a pallet, so as to communicate motion by pushing.
(US, politics) A paster.
To apply one or more stickers to (something)
To mark as the sticker price
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=Februaryruary 28, author=Rita Zekas, title=DecoRita visits West Elm, work=Toronto Star
, passage=Also out of Africa: a huge hammered copper floor mirror stickered at $449. }}
(nonstandard, informal) (stick) (stickier).
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 sticker and stinker
is that sticker is something that sticks while stinker is a person who stinks.As a verb sticker
is to apply one or more stickers to (something).As an adjective sticker
is (nonstandard|informal) (stick) (stickier).sticker
English
(wikipedia sticker)Etymology 1
From .Noun
(en noun)- When buying a car, know the sticker and the invoice price.
- (Thackeray)
Derived terms
* stickeryReferences
* * *Verb
(en verb)citation
Etymology 2
From .Adjective
(head)- A sticker type of glue that always stays sticky.
Anagrams
* * ----stinker
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.