stinkard

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English

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Etymology

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From stink +‎ -ard.

Noun

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stinkard (plural stinkards)

  1. (obsolete) Any of various malodorous animals.
    • 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford, published 2010, page 35:
      His nose, however, again gushed out blood, a system of defence which seemed as natural to him as that resorted to by the race of stinkards.
    • 1854, Charles Dickens, Household Words, volume 8, page 66:
      Next you have a group of stinkards, vermin whom I hold in abomination. . . . [T]here have been cases proved of persons being killed in their beds by the odour of stinkards; and it is sufficient for one of these creatures merely to pass through a granary, a fruit-room, or a cellar, to render every provision in them uneatable.
  2. A teledu or stink badger, endemic to the island of Java, Mydaus javanensis.
  3. (figuratively, rare, archaic) A person whose behavior is hurtful and unsavory; a stinker.

References

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  • stinkard”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

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