I had not heard this word until this week. It sort of demanded that I share. So, what is a smellfungus?
Smellfungus (smel-FUNG-uhs): noun, A habitual faultfinder or complainer, an excessively faultfinding person.
ORIGIN:
After Smelfungus, a hypercritical character in Laurence Sterne’s 1768 novel, A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy.
SYNONYMS: cognoscente, commentator, connoisseur, <critic, knocker, muckraker, nitpicker, pettifogger, quibbler, reviewer, scholiast, scold, editor,frondeur
From Urban Dictionary:
a person who bitches, pisses and moans, and gripes about absolutely everything.
Usage: My wife was the quintessential smellfungus. No matter what I did or said, nothing was good enough. She was on me like a June bug on a porch light.
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