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stinkard

American  
[sting-kerd] / ˈstɪŋ kərd /

noun

  1. a despicable person; stinker.


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Etymology

Origin of stinkard

First recorded in 1590–1600; stink + -ard


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I do feel myself turn stinkard already: but I must set the best face I have upon't now.

From The Poetaster by Ben Jonson

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.

From How to See the British Museum in Four Visits by W. Blanchard Jerrold

I guessed he was under some agitation of spirits and desired to know the cause; but, instead of answering me directly, he asked with great emotion, if I thought him a monster and a stinkard?

From The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

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