stinkard

[sting-kerd]

noun

1. a despicable person; stinker.

Other Word Forms

• stinkardly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of stinkard¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; stink + -ard

Example Sentences

The case to which the visitor's attention is now directed, contains the varieties of the glutton family—the Chinese musk weasel; the European and North American badgers; the Javan stinkard, and the American skunks and conepats.

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What, hurried to durance, like a stinkard!

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Why now thou art a loving stinkard.

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And he cried out to her, saying, "Come, thou stinkard, I will not sell thee."

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Shew them, bankrupt, shew them; they have salt in them, and will brook the air, stinkard.

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