Smelfungus, a name given by Sterne to Smollett as author of volume of “Travels through France and Italy,” for the snarling abuse he heaps on the institutions and customs of the countries he visited; a name Carlyle assumes when he has any seriously severe criticisms to offer on things particularly that have gone or are going to the bad.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Smectymnuus * Smiles, Samuel