stinkard

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Definition of stinkard

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (obsolete)Any of various malodorous animals.
    “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.”
    “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.”
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noun

  1. (obsolete)Any of various malodorous animals.
    “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.”
    “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. (archaic, figuratively, rare)A person whose behavior is hurtful and unsavory; a stinker.
    “[H]e asked with great emotion, if I thought him a monster and a stinkard!”
    “Thou'rt a sweatbox and a stinkard, sir.”
    “"The Heartbreak Kid," by contrast, is a mean piece of work with an unsympathetic, lying stinkard of an anti-hero.”

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Etymology

From stink + -ard.

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