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Word Meanings - STINKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any one of the several species of large antarctic petrels which feed on blubber and carrion and have an offensive odor, as the giant fulmar. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, stinks.

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  • GIANTIZE
    To play the giant. Sherwood.
  • OFFENSIVE
    1. Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words. 2. Giving pain or unpleasant sensations; disagreeable; revolting; noxious; as, an offensive smell; offensive sounds. "Offensive to the stomach."
  • SPECIES
    A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes,
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • GIANTLY
    Appropriate to a giant. Usher.
  • BLUBBERY
    1. Swollen; protuberant. 2. Like blubber; gelatinous and quivering; as, a blubbery mass.
  • GIANTSHIP
    The state, personality, or character, of a giant; -- a compellation for a giant. His giantship is gone somewhat crestfallen. Milton.
  • WHICH
    the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
  • LARGE-ACRED
    Possessing much land.
  • SEVERALITY
    Each particular taken singly; distinction. Bp. Hall.
  • GIANTESS
    A woman of extraordinary size.
  • SEVERALLY
    Separately; distinctly; apart from others; individually. There must be an auditor to check and revise each severally by itself. De Quincey.
  • SEVERAL
    1. Separate; distinct; particular; single. Each several ship a victory did gain. Dryden. Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand. Pope. 2. Diverse; different; various. Spenser. Habits and faculties,
  • BLUBBERED
    Swollen; turgid; as, a blubbered lip. Spenser.
  • CARRION
    1. The dead and putrefying body or flesh of an animal; flesh so corrupted as to be unfit for food. They did eat the dead carrions. Spenser. 2. A contemptible or worthless person; -- a term of reproach. "Old feeble carrions." Shak.
  • SEVERALTY
    A state of separation from the rest, or from all others; a holding by individual right. Forests which had never been owned in severalty. Bancroft. Estate in severalty , an estate which the tenant holds in his own right, without being joined in
  • BLUBBER
    A large sea nettle or medusa. (more info) 1. A bubble. At his mouth a blubber stood of foam. Henryson. 2. The fat of whales and other large sea animals from which oil is obtained. It lies immediately under the skin and over the muscular flesh.
  • FULMAR
    One of several species of sea birds, of the family procellariidæ, allied to the albatrosses and petrels. Among the well- known species are the arctic fulmar (called also fulmar petrel, malduck, and mollemock), and the giant fulmar
  • BLUBBERING
    The act of weeping noisily. He spake well save that his blubbering interrupted him. Winthrop.
  • LARGE-HANDED
    Having large hands, Fig.: Taking, or giving, in large quantities; rapacious or bountiful.
  • ENLARGEMENT
    1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
  • ALLEGIANT
    Loyal. Shak.
  • FOOL-LARGESSE
    Foolish expenditure; waste. Chaucer.
  • INOFFENSIVE
    1. Giving no offense, or provocation; causing no uneasiness, annoyance, or disturbance; as, an inoffensive man, answer, appearance. 2. Harmless; doing no injury or mischief. Dryden. 3. Not obstructing; presenting no interruption bindrance. Milton.
  • BEBLUBBER
    To make swollen and disfigured or sullied by weeping; as, her eyes or cheeks were beblubbered.

 

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