stinkard

Noun

stinkard (plural stinkards)

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.1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford, published 2010, page 35
   • 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...1854, Charles Dickens, Household Words, volume 8, page 66
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!1748, Tobias Smollett, chapter 34, in The Adventures of Roderick Random
   • Thou'rt a sweatbox and a stinkard, sir.1960, John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor, Doubleday, published 1987, →ISBN, page 48