Sickophant

Sickophant: noun. An ill, wheezing elephant that finds it hard to talk without sounding like a broken vacuum cleaner. It is a sad fact of life that many people confuse sickophants with sicko-phants - elephants with slightly perverted tendencies. Another sad fact of life is that these people also tend to confuse the two terms with the word sickopants, a person whose trousers and underwear suffer from severe leprosy and fall off at the most inconvenient moments.