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stinkerdom

noun

Etymology

From stinker + -dom.

  1. inherited from *stengʷ-✻
  2. inherited from *stinkwaną✻
  3. inherited from stincan
  4. inherited from stynken
  5. suffixed as stinker — “stink + er”
  6. suffixed as stinkerdom — “stinker + dom”

Definitions

  1. The state or sphere of stinkers

    The state or sphere of stinkers; contemptible behaviour.

    • Boyer's try at stinkerdom was his psychopathic persecution of Ingrid Bergman in Gaslight. The closest MacMurray came to undiluted scalawaggery was as the fall guy in Double Indemnity.
    • I am only trying to explain how one may drift into stinkerdom.
    • “Sometimes you can be such a stinker!” He blurted a guffaw. “Me?” It crossed his mind to mention the prime example of stinkerdom—her having married Matt MacDonald—but he thought better of it.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA