Teledu vs Stinkard - What's the difference?
teledu | stinkard |
(obsolete) A malodorous person or animal.
* 1854 , , Household Words , vol. 8, p. 66:
The teledu.
(figuratively, rare, archaic) A person whose behavior is hurtful and unsavory; a stinker.
* 1748 , , The Adventures of Roderick Random , ch. 34:
* 1960 , , The Sot-Weed Factor (1987 Doubleday edition), ISBN 9780385240888, p. 48:
* 2007 , Amy Biancolli, "
As nouns the difference between teledu and stinkard
is that teledu is a mammal endemic to the island of java, while stinkard is (obsolete) a malodorous person or animal.teledu
English
Synonyms
* (Mydaus javanensis) (Indonesian stink badger), (Javan stink badger), (Malay stink badger), (Sunda stink badger)External links
* ("teledu" on Wikipedia) * (Mydaus javanensis) * (Mydaus javanensis)Anagrams
* ----stinkard
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Noun
(en noun)- 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 provision in them uneatable.
- [H]e asked with great emotion, if I thought him a monster and a stinkard !
- Thou'rt a sweatbox and a stinkard , sir.
‘Heartbreak’ anti-hero goes too far," Times Union (Albany, NY), 5 Oct. (retrieved 2 Sept. 2009):
- "The Heartbreak Kid," by contrast, is a mean piece of work with an unsympathetic, lying stinkard of an anti-hero.
