stinger

See also: Stinger

English

A wasp's stinger with a drop of venom

A US Army soldier deploying a stinger at a vehicle check point in Iraq

Etymology

sting +‎ -er. Both figurative and literal senses appeared in the 16th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɪŋə(ɹ)/
• IPA^(key): /ˈstɪŋɚ/

• Audio (AU):

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋə(r)

Noun

stinger (plural stingers)

1. A pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack.
2. Anything that is used to sting, as a means of attack.
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IV

     The thing stopped then and looked at me a moment as much as to say: "Why this thing has a stinger! I must be careful." And then it reached out its long neck and opened its mighty jaws and grabbed for me; but I wasn't there.

3. Anything, such as an insult, that stings mentally or psychologically.
4. A cocktail of brandy and crème de menthe.
5. A portable bed of nails to puncture car tires, used by police and military forces.
6. A minor neurological injury of the spine characterized by a shooting or stinging pain down one arm, followed by numbness and weakness.
7. A station identifier on television or radio played between shows.
8. A scene shown on films or television shows after the credits.
9. (slang) A nonlethal grenade using rubber instead of shrapnel, more commonly called a sting grenade.
10. (slang) A final note played at the end of a military march.
11. (slang, television and film) An extension cord.
12. (slang, West Country, Bristol) A stinging nettle.
13. Chironex fleckeri, an extremely venomous Australian box jellyfish.

Synonyms

• (pointed portion of an insect or arachnid): sting
• (device used to puncture car tyres): spike strip

Translations

pointed portion of an insect

• Albanian: thumb (sq)
• Armenian: խայթոց (hy) (xaytʻocʻ), խայթ (hy) (xaytʻ)
• Azerbaijani: neştər (az)
• Belarusian: джа́ла n (džála)
• Bulgarian: жи́ло (bg) n (žílo)
• Catalan: fibló m, agulló (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 刺 (zh) (cì), 毒刺 (zh) (dúcì)

• Czech: žihadlo (cs) n
• Esperanto: pikilo
• Finnish: pistin (fi)
• French: aiguillon (fr) m, dard (fr) m
• Galician: ferrete m, aguillón (gl) m, ferrón m
• Georgian: ნესტარი (nesṭari)
• German: Stachel (de) m
• Greek: κεντρί (el) n (kentrí)

  Ancient: κέντρον n (kéntron)

• Greenlandic: iguut
• Hebrew: עוקץ (he) m (‘óqetz)
• Hungarian: fullánk (hu)
• Icelandic: broddur (is) m
• Italian: aculeo (it) m, pungiglione (it) m
• Japanese: 針 (ja) (はり, hari), 毒針 (どくばり, dokubari)
• Kalmyk: хатхур (xatxur)
• Kayapó: tey
• Kazakh: шаншар (şanşar)
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• Latin: aculeus m
• Latvian: dzelonis (lv) m
• Lithuanian: geluonis m
• Macedonian: осило n (osilo), жило n (žilo)
• Navajo: azǫ́ǫ́z
• Norwegian: brodd m
• Persian: نیش (fa) (niš)
• Polish: żądło (pl) n
• Portuguese: ferrão (pt) m, aguilhão (pt) m
• Romanian: ac (ro) n
• Russian: жа́ло (ru) n (žálo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: жаока f, жалац m, бодља f, бодљика f, боцка f

  Roman: žaoka (sh) f, žalac (sh) m, bodlja (sh) f, bodljika (sh) f, bocka f

• Slovak: žihadlo n
• Slovene: želo (sl) n
• Southern Altai: чагак (čagak)
• Spanish: aguijón (es) m
• Swedish: gadd (sv) c
• Tagalog: asir
• Thai: เหล็กใน (th) (lèk-nai)
• Turkish: iğne (tr)
• Ukrainian: жа́ло n (žálo)
• Vietnamese: ngòi (vi)
• Yiddish: שטאָך m (shtokh)

anything that stings mentally or psychologically

• Italian: frecciata (it) f, stoccata (it) f, provocazione (it) f
• Japanese: いやみ (iyami)
• Portuguese: insulto (pt), provocação (pt)
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• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: žalac (sh) m, bodlja (sh) f, bodljika (sh) f, drača (sh) f, griža (sh) f

Anagrams

• Ginters, Tigners, Tsering, resting, ringest, tingers

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Swedish

Verb

stinger

1. (deprecated template usage) present tense of stinga.

Anagrams

• tigerns