stinker

1. (slang) A contemptible person or thing.Examples: ""Stop squallin', you little stinker!" She struck the child with her open hand across the face."; ""But it's far worse for me," said Edmund, "because you'll at least have a room of your own and I shall have to share a bedroom with that record stinker, Eustace.""; "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."Synonyms: creep, rotter, scoundrel, stinkardslang

2. (slang) Something difficult (e.g. a given puzzle) or unpleasant (e.g. negative review, nasty letter).Examples: "Today's crossword is a stinker."; "I number several authors among my acquaintance […] and they invariably become all of a doodah when they read a stinker in the press about their latest effort."; "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."Synonyms: hatchet job, nastygramslang

3. (British, slang) Something of poor quality.Examples: "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."; "Steven Pinker, Rational Thinker: His new book is a stinker. [title]"; "Now it’s over, let’s come out and say it: The Rings of Power was a stinker [title]"Synonyms: clunkerBritishslang

4. (slang) A chemist.slang

5. (Australia, slang) A hot day.Synonyms: scorcher, stinkerAustraliaslang

6. (Australia, slang) A black eye.Australiaslang