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smellfungus|smɛlˈfʌŋgəs|
Also 8 smelfungus. Pl. -fungi |-ˈfʌndʒaɪ|.
[The name by which Sterne designated Smollett on account of the captious tone of the latter's Travels through France and Italy (1766).]
A discontented person; a grumbler, faultfinder. Also attrib.
[1768Sterne Sent. Journ., In the Street, Calais, The learned Smelfungus travelled from Boulogne to Paris,..but he set out with the spleen and jaundice, and every object he pass'd by was discoloured or distorted.] 1807–8W. Irving Salmag. (1824) 15 Let the grumbling smellfungi..rail at the extravagance of the age. 1842F. Trollope Visit Italy II. xxiii. 380 Smellfungus people, who love to torment themselves. |