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stinkards

stinkards is the plural of stinkard.

Meaning of 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
  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

Questions about stinkards

What is stinkards the plural of?
Stinkards is the plural of stinkard.

Words near stinkards in the dictionary

  1. stink-cats
  2. stink-eye
  3. stinka
  4. stinkage
  5. stinkard
  6. stinkards
  7. stinkaroo
  8. stinkaroos
  9. stinkas
  10. stinkbag
  11. stinkbags

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