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. 2011ĭefinition - an excessively faultfinding person The Independent, (London, Eng.), 12 Mar. Naturally, she was jealous when her mother, after glimpsing Shaw, said, “he was a well-scrubbed old cockalorum, with frightful teeth.” 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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