There are some two or three things the Smellfunguses all admit, we believe, and beyond that, nothing that they think will be pleasant to us to hear. The Sunday Times (London, Eng.) 21 Sept. These were diluted into a combined mass of travels, by the Smellfungi and Mundungi within the century, and blazoned forth in all the pomp and parade of novelty, preceded by a very pretty preface, in which the tourist affects to be led, like blushing maiden, to the printing office, by the relentless persuasion of friends. Both forms are found in occasional use, and you should employ whichever suits your fancy. The matter of whether smellfungus is properly pluralized with an -i or an es has never been established.
Stern created a hypocritical character named Smelfungus in his 1768 book A Sentimental Journey through France, a satire on Smollett, whose Travels through France and Italy had been published two years earlier. In the case of smellfungus, however, we not only know who coined the word (Laurence Sterne), we also know who it is supposed to represent (Tobias Smollett). It is not often that we know who created a particular word, despite the claims that are made about such-and-such writer inventing this-or-that word such claims are usually false. He would grudge the old soldiers their pensions!-has the nerve to talk to me about my cigars!ĭefinition - an excessively faultfinding person The darned little cockalorum! If is weren’t business I’d have soaked the tar out of him. If cockalorum suggests a crowing cock, that's because the word probably comes from kockeloeren - an obsolete Dutch dialect verb meaning "to crow.” In addition to describing a boastful person, cockalorum can be used in referring to the boastful talk (and also for the game of leapfrog.
Yes siree, they don't title 'em like they used to.
Fairburn foisted on an unsuspecting public at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries: The Cockolorum songster, and convivial companion, for 1800: Being a collection of monstrous good, monstrous droll, and monstrous bad, songs, introduced by some eccentric anecdotes of my cousin, the noble grand cock. Take, for example, the slim volume of songs and anecdotes the British publisher J. Once upon a time book titles were a touch more. Definition - a boastful and self-important person a strutting little fellow
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