Monday, August 3, 2015

Word of the Day

stinkaroo
\sting-kuh-ROO, STING-kuh-roo\

noun
1. Slang. something markedly inferior in quality: a stinkaroo of a motion picture.

Quotes
This was the stinkaroo deal that came to define the dot-com era.
-- Chris O'Brien, "Where does WhatsApp acquisition rank in history of tech deals?" Los Angeles Times, February 20, 2014

Origin
Stinkaroo arose in the 1930s from the word stink combined with -eroo, a suffix that creates familiar, usually jocular variations of semantically neutral nouns.
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