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smellfungus

smell·fun·gus [ sméll fùng gəss ] (plural smell·fun·gi [ sméll fùn jī, sméll fùng gī ] or smell·fun·guses)


noun 
Definition:
 
ill-tempered person: a carping faultfinder ( archaic )

[Early 19th century. After Smellfungus, name given to Tobias Smollett by Laurence Sterne in A Sentimental Journey (1768), because of the ill-tempered tone of Smollett's Travels through France and Italy (1766)]
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