| 词汇 | smellfungus |
| 词源 | smellfungus. A discontented person, a grumbler and fault- finder. The first smellfungus was British novelist Tobias Smollett (1721–71), who was once imprisoned for libel. Smollett’s book Travels in France and Italy (1766) was entertaining but ill- tempered and novelist Laurence Sterne parodied the author as “Smellfungus” in his Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (1768). Within a short time smellfungus was being applied to any ill-tempered grumbler. |
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