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stinkard

noun

Etymology

From stink + -ard.

  1. inherited from *stengʷ-✻
  2. inherited from *stinkwaną✻
  3. inherited from stincan
  4. inherited from stynken
  5. suffixed as stinkard — “stink + ard”

Definitions

  1. 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.

  2. A teledu or stink badger, endemic to the island of Java, Mydaus javanensis.

  3. A person whose behavior is hurtful and unsavory

    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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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA