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stinkard en · NOUN

Etymology

From stink + -ard.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) Any of various malodorous animals.
   • 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. 1854, Charles Dickens, Household Words, volume 8, page 66:
   • 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. 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford, published 2010, page 35:
2. A teledu or stink badger, endemic to the island of Java, Mydaus javanensis.
3. (archaic, figuratively, rare) A person whose behavior is hurtful and unsavory; a stinker.
   • Thou'rt a sweatbox and a stinkard, sir. 1960, John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor, Doubleday, published 1987, →ISBN, page 48:
   • [H]e asked with great emotion, if I thought him a monster and a stinkard! 1748, Tobias Smollett, chapter 34, in The Adventures of Roderick Random:
   • "The Heartbreak Kid," by contrast, is a mean piece of work with an unsympathetic, lying stinkard of an anti-hero. 2007, Amy Biancolli, "‘Heartbreak’ anti-hero goes too far," Times Union (Albany, NY), 5 Oct. (retrieved 2 Sept. 2009)

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