the

having a strong and fragrant smell or flavor, usually overlaps with what described as "minty" or "citrusy" in English


PU

IMO, this stinks. PU.

1994 February 28, zombie, “Future Images”, in rec.arts.comics.misc (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-20:

1997 February 19, K.A.J., “PU, whats that smell......”, in rec.equestrian (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-20:

1999 April 7, Thomas Mac Donald, “99 Interior Smell - PU”, in rec.autos.makers.mazda.miata (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-20:

THIS NEWSGROUP STINKS
PU

2000 March 19, thunde...@webtv.net, “PU WHO CUT THE FRIKIN CHEESE?”, in alt.cheese (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-20:

Phew can mean you are exhausted, hot, and other things which leave you overwhelmed. Pew is a bench you sit on in church. PU means that something stinks. I feel no connection between these words. While Phew *may* mean "what a stink", PU can mean *only* "what a stink". By the way, PU has been around at least since was a young kid 60 years ago.

2000 February 22, Karl Reinhardt, “How to spell???”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-20:

PU? As in Stinks? :^)
Sam (Pee Euw) Sands

2000 October 7, Samuel Sands, “Truck”, in atl.arno (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-20:

(slang) Alternative form of P U; expression used when encountering a displeasing smell; exaggerated pronunciation of pew.


nose

English: nose

Scots: nos, nose, nois

From Old English nosu, from Proto-West Germanic *nosu.


nose

English: noose

Probably from Old French nous, nos, nominative singular of nou, no (“knot”).


smell

en-noun

smell (countable and uncountable, plural smells)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld-
Proto-West Germanic *smalljan
Old English *smiellan
Middle English smellen
English smell
From Middle English smellen, smillen, smyllen, smullen, from Old English *smyllan, *smiellan (“to smell, emit fumes”), from Proto-West Germanic *smallijan (“to glow, burn, smoulder”), from Proto-Indo-European *smel- (“to burn, smoke, smoulder; tar, pitch”). The noun is from Middle English smel, smil, smul (“smell, odour”). Related to Saterland Frisian smeele (“to smoulder”), Middle Dutch smōlen (“to burn, smoulder”) (whence Dutch smeulen (“to smoulder”)), Middle Low German smölen (“to be hazy, be dusty”) (whence Low German smölen (“smoulder”)), Low German smullen (“emit smoke”), West Flemish smoel (“stuffy, muggy, hazy”), Danish smul (“dust, powder”), Lithuanian smilkyti (“to incense, fumigate”), Lithuanian smilkti (“to smudge, smolder, fume, reek”), Lithuanian smalkinti (“to fume”), Middle Irish smál, smól, smúal (“fire, gleed, embers, ashes”), Russian смола́ (smolá, “resin, tar”). Compare smoulder, smother.

cog

I love the smell of fresh bread.

The penetrating smell of cabbage reached the nose of Toad as he lay prostrate in his misery on the floor, and gave him the idea for a moment that perhaps life was not such a blank and desperate thing as he had imagined. But still he wailed, and kicked with his legs, and refused to be comforted. So the wise girl retired for the time, but, of course, a good deal of the smell of hot cabbage remained behind, as it will do, and Toad, between his sobs, sniffed and reflected, and gradually began to think new and inspiring thoughts: of chivalry, and poetry[…]

1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:

A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance.

aroma

(sensation): see Thesaurus:smell; pleasant

niff

(sensation): see Thesaurus:smell; unpleasant


smell

en-verb

smell (third-person singular simple present smells, present participle smelling, simple past and past participle smelled or smelt)

smells (present singular third-person)
smelling (participle present)
smelled (participle past)
smelled (past)
smelt (participle past)
smelt (past)

ощуща́ть за́пах

oščuščátʹ zápax

ruik

to have a particular smell, whether good or bad; if descriptive, followed by "like" or "of"

I do smell all horse-piss

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

en:omit odor whether good or bad
en:have the odor of

whiff

informal; these words refer to unpleasant smells

(intransitive, copulative) Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad.

(by extension, intransitive, copulative) To smell of; to have a smell of

Ew, this stuff smells.

en:omit odor whether good or bad
en:omit bad odor

(intransitive, without a modifier) To smell bad; to stink.

A report smells of calumny.

Praises in an enemy are superfluous, or smell of craft.

1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC:

en:smack of something whether literally or figuratively

(intransitive, figurative) To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savour.


sweet

en-adj

sweet (comparative sweeter, superlative sweetest)

sweeter (comparative)
sweetest (superlative)

nonsweet

antonym(s) of “containing a sweetening ingredient”

dry

of wines: retaining a portion of natural sugar

decaying

antonym(s) of “not decaying, fermented, rancid, sour, spoiled, or stale”

sour

antonym(s) of “free from excessive unwanted substances”

lame

antonym(s) of “(informal) very pleasing”

From Middle English swete, from Old English swēte (“sweet”), from Proto-West Germanic *swōtī, from Proto-Germanic *swōtuz (“sweet”), from Proto-Indo-European *swéh₂dus (“sweet”).
Cognate and synonymous with Scots sweit (“sweet”), North Frisian sweete (“sweet”), Saterland Frisian swäit (“sweet”), West Frisian swiet (“sweet”), Dutch zoet (“sweet”), German Low German sööt (“sweet”), German süß (“sweet”), Danish sød (“sweet”), Swedish söt (“sweet”), Norwegian søt (“sweet”), Icelandic sætur (“sweet”), Latin suāvis, Sanskrit स्वादु (svādú), Ancient Greek ἡδύς (hēdús). Doublet of suave.

money won is twice as sweet as money earned

a sweet scent

Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to me, / I will give them all back again.

1838 October, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Reaper and the Flowers”, in Voices of the Night, Cambridge, Mass.: […] John Owen, published 1839, →OCLC, page 8:


stink

From Middle English stinken, from Old English stincan, from Proto-Germanic *stinkwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *stengʷ-, *stegʷ- (“to push, thrust, strike”). Cognate with West Frisian stjonke (“to stink”), Dutch stinken (“to stink”), German stinken (“to stink”), Danish stinke (“to stink”), Swedish stinka (“to stink”), Icelandic stökkva (“to spring, leap, jump”).


嗅

Simplified from 齅 (鼻 → 口); in current form: Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *qʰlus, *qʰluŋs): semantic 口 + phonetic 臭 (OC *kʰljus).


香

From Old Japanese. First attested in the Nihon Shoki of 720 CE.

a pleasant smell; a scent, a fragrance, an aroma


stinkbomb

That trash bin is one big stinkbomb.

A source of unpleasant odors, such as rotten eggs or garbage.


perfume

en-noun

perfume (countable and uncountable, plural perfumes)

Borrowed from Middle French parfum, perfum. Doublet of parfum.

គន្ធរស

kŏənthĕəʼrŭəh

Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.

1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “Afterglow”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 168:

A pleasant smell; the scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor


miasma

From Ancient Greek μίασμα (míasma, “stain, pollution”).


scent

en-noun

scent (countable and uncountable, plural scents)

From c.1400, from Middle English sent (noun) and senten (verb), from Old French sentir (“to feel, perceive, smell”), from Old French sentire "to feel, perceive, sense", from Latin sentīre. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”), and thus related to Dutch zin (“sense, meaning”), German Sinn (“sense”), Low German Sinn (“sense”), Luxembourgish Sënn (“sense, perception”), Saterland Frisian Sin (“sense”), West Frisian sin (“sense”). The -c- appeared in the 17th century, possibly by influence of ascent, descent, etc., or by influence of science.

cog

the scent of flowers / of a skunk

to give off / release / exude a scent

to breathe in / inhale a scent

hunger and thirst at once, / Powerful perswaders, quick’nd at the scent / Of that alluring fruit,

1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 586-588:

The scent of these arm-pits is aroma finer than prayer,

1892, Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”, in Leaves of Grass […], Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay, publisher, […], →OCLC, page 49:

Behind me the forest stood wrapped in mist, its scents still sleeping.

1973, Mary Stewart, The Hollow Hills, New York: William Morrow, Book 3, p. 357:

The air is thick with the unexpected scent of rain.

2014, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, chapter 32, in Dust, London: Granta Books, page 289:

I believe the bloodhound has the best scent of all dogs.

His houndes espyde him where he was, and Blacksoote first of all / And Stalker speciall good of sent began aloud to call.

1567, Ovid, “The Third Booke”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […], →OCLC, folio 33, recto:

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of the spring:

1759, Samuel Johnson, chapter 29, in The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia, Philadelphia: Robert Bell, published 1768, page 113:

[I]nnumerable flowers, sweet to the scent and the eyes

1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter V, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume II, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, page 76:

Keen is the scent of the slaveholder; like the fangs of the rattlesnake, his malice retains its poison long; and, although it is now nearly seventeen years since I made my escape, it is well to be careful, in dealing with the circumstances relating to it.

1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 21, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York, Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC, part I (Life as a Slave), page 322:


scent

en-verb

scent (third-person singular simple present scents, present participle scenting, simple past and past participle scented)

scents (present singular third-person)
scenting (participle present)
scented (participle past)
scented (past)

Thunderbolts & lightnings […] do sent strongly of brimstone:

1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XXXV.] 15.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 2nd tome, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 557:

1647, John Fletcher and Philip Massinger, The False One, Act III, Scene 2, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies, London: John Martyn et al., p. 325,
I smell him now: fie, how the Knave perfumes him, / How strong he scents of Traitor?

though praying for a wounded Conscience may seemingly scent of pretended humility, it doth really and rankly savour of pride,

1647, Thomas Fuller, The Cause and Cure of a Wounded Conscience, London: John Williams, Dialogue 21, page 154:

(intransitive, obsolete) To have a smell; (figuratively) to give an impression (of something).


alliaceous

en-adj

alliaceous (comparative more alliaceous, superlative most alliaceous)

more alliaceous (comparative)
most alliaceous (superlative)


spice

English: spice

Scots: spice

From Old French espice, (modern épice), an old borrowing from Late Latin speciēs.

spices (powders used to flavour meals or dishes):

Spices as used as scents or to enhance the smell of something.


nos

nosk (diminutive)
nos (nominative singular)
nosa (dual nominative)
nose (nominative plural)
nosa (genitive singular)
nosowu (dual genitive)
nosow (genitive plural)
nosoju (dative singular)
nosoma (dative dual)
nosam (dative plural)
nos (accusative singular)
nosa (accusative dual)
nose (accusative plural)
nosom (instrumental singular)
nosoma (dual instrumental)
nosami (instrumental plural)
nosu (locative singular)
nosoma (dual locative)
nosach (locative plural)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *nosъ, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s.


anosmia

en-noun

anosmia (countable and uncountable, plural anosmias)

/æˈnɑːzmiːə/

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-anosmia.wav

From New Latin anosmia, equivalent to an- + -osmi.

Often accompanied by an inability to taste, anosmia occurs abruptly and dramatically in these patients, almost as if a switch had been flipped.

2021 January 2, Roni Caryn Rabin, “Some Covid Survivors Haunted by Loss of Smell and Taste”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Inability to smell; the inability to perceive odors.


anosmia

anosmia (nominative singular)
anosmie (nominative plural)
anosmii (genitive singular)
anosmii (genitive plural)
anosmij (archaic genitive plural)
anosmii (dative singular)
anosmiom (dative plural)
anosmię (accusative singular)
anosmie (accusative plural)
anosmią (instrumental singular)
anosmiami (instrumental plural)
anosmii (locative singular)
anosmiach (locative plural)
anosmio (singular vocative)
anosmie (plural vocative)

From New Latin anosmia, from an- Ancient Greek ὀσμή (osmḗ).


anosmia

(pathology) anosmia (the inability to smell)


anosmic

en-adj

anosmic (comparative more anosmic, superlative most anosmic)

more anosmic (comparative)
most anosmic (superlative)

He had an anosmic patient who was very fond of the bouquet of moselle. […] One gentleman fell from his horse, fractured the ethmoid bone, and became anosmic.

1870 February 12, William Ogle, “Anosmia; Cases Illustrating the Physiology and Pathology of the Sense of Smell”, in James G. Wakley, editor, The Lancet: A Journal of British and Foreign Medicine, Physiology, Surgery, Chemistry, Criticism, Literature and News, volume I, number 2424, London: Published by John James Croft, at the office of "The Lancet," 423, Strand, →OCLC, page 231, column 1:

The possible influence of various sensory factors in migration was tested by Dodson and Leggett (1974) who compared the behaviour of ultrasonically tagged control shad with ones which had been blinded, or had the olfactory system occluded (anosmic fish), or had been subjected to both these operations. […] Both blind and blind/anosmic fish orientated into the tidal current and altered their swimming speed in relation to the speed of the tide as did intact fish.

1982, J. H. S. Blaxter, J. R. Hunter, “The Biology of Clupeoid Fishes”, in J. H. S. Blaxter, Frederick S[tratten] Russell, Maurice Yonge, editors, Advances in Marine Biology, volume 20, London, New York, N.Y.: Academic Press, →ISBN, pages 124–125:

As a first step in determining the degree of involvement of other sensory systems in the smell deficits of anosmic patients, a retrospective study was undertaken to determine if these patients could separate trigeminal and nontrigeminal odorants. […] The results of this analysis demonstrated […] that anosmic patients could separate ammonia and vinegar from the other eight odorants of the OCM [Odorant Confusion Matrix], even though these odorants are usually not correctly identified.

1994, David E. Hornung, Daniel Kurtz, Steven L. Youngentob, “Anosmic Patients Can Trigeminal and Nontrigeminal Stimulants”, in K[enzo] Kurihara, N[oriyo] Suzuki, H[isashi] Ogawa, editors, Olfaction and Taste XI: Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste and of the 27th Japanese Symposium on Taste and Smell: Joint Meeting Held at Kosei-nenkin Kaikan, Sapporo, Japan, July 12–16, 1993, Tokyo, Berlin, New York, N.Y.: Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, page 635:

Klopfer and Gamble (1966) gave 16 female goats (C. hircus) 5 min of contact with their young at parturition. Nine of the mothers had been temporarily rendered anosmic (could not smell) at parturition by spraying a 10% cocaine hydrogen chloride solution into their nostrils 20–90 min prior to parturition. […] Eight of the nine females who were anosmic at parturition but could smell at reintroduction accepted their own offspring, as well as alien young during reinstatement.

2008, Edward O. Price, “Maternal and Neonatal Behavior”, in Principles and Applications of Domestic Animal Behavior: An Introductory Text, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, Cambridge, Mass.: CABI, →ISBN, page 149:

(pathology) Having anosmia; lacking a sense of smell.

The whales, porpoises and seals have however a reason that man does not possess for being anosmic. For they, in common with all the living world of earth and air, left the sea millions of years ago and, as they developed lungs with which to breathe, so did they modify their organs of smell to receive sensations from air, not water. Eons later, in comparatively recent geologic times, when these few mammals left the land and returned to the water, this differentiation for air-smelling had gone too far. Their senses of smell failed to react to water-borne stimuli. […] It is worth discussing these anosmic animals, and what caused them to lose the sense of smell.

1960, James Knox Millen, “chapter II”, in Your Nose Knows: A Study of the Sense of Smell, Los Angeles, Calif.: Cunningham Press, →OCLC, page 13:

Even in the totally anosmic whale without an olfactory nerve, bulb, or tract, it is noteworthy that the third-order neurons of the olfactory system still persist.

1978, R. Bruce Masterton, K. K. Glendenning, “Phylogeny of the Vertebrate Sensory Systems”, in R. Bruce Masterton, editor, Sensory Integration (Handbook of Behavioral Neurobiology; 1), New York, N.Y.: Plenum Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 5:

Because dolphins are regarded as anosmic, because the animals usually swallow fish and other food whole without mastication, and because, until recently, taste buds had not been found in the tongue of several dolphin species, some cetologists have doubted that the animals possess the sense of taste.

1990, Sam H. Ridgway, “The Central Nervous System of the Bottlenose Dolphin”, in Stephen Leatherwood, Randall R. Reeves, editors, The Bottlenose Dolphin, San Diego, Calif., London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 85:

(zoology) Lacking olfactory organs; anosmatic.


anosmic

A person who has lost the sense of smell (an anosmic) is deprived of more than pleasurable sensations, for it has been argued that as the environment becomes more polluted what the nose knows may have to be taken seriously[…].

1982, Trygg Engen, “Introduction”, in The Perception of Odors (Academic Press Series in Cognition and Perception), New York, N.Y., London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 1:

An anosmic will be able to taste the sweetness of an apple or a pear but will be unable to distinguish between their flavors or be able to taste chocolate.

2006, Richard L. Doty, Steven M. Bromley, Windolyn D. Panganiban, “Olfactory Function and Dysfunction”, in Byron J. Bailey, Jonas T. Johnson, Shawn D. Newlands, editors, Head & Neck Surgery – Otolaryngology, 4th edition, volume 1, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN, page 298, column 1:

The emotional consequences of smell loss are often underestimated, particularly in the medical community. Anosmics show varying degrees of depressive symptoms, such as feelings of helplessness, isolation in their condition, sad mood, loss of independence, and fatigue. Depression is common among patients with smell dysfunction. One-fifth of a sample of anosmics scored in the clinically depressed range on a depression measure, […]

2011, Tim Jacob, “The Science of Taste and Smell”, in Francesca Bacci, David Melcher, editors, Art and the Senses, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 202:

(pathology) A person with anosmia; a person lacking a sense of smell.


pong

1992, Bryce Courtenay, Tandia, Volume 1, 2011, Read How You Want, page 109,
She sniffed, squiffing up her nose. ‘What a pong! Do they all smell like this?’

I can remember calling round once and when she answered the door I was greeted by an unmistakable, noxious pong. “I can smell gas!”
I said. “Oh, have I left the ring on?” she asked vaguely.

1998, Catherine Fox, Heaven′s Scent: Third Way, page 13:

2000, Susan Sallis, 2011, unnumbered page,
‘I see what you mean about the pong. I couldn′t smell it on myself but I can smell it on you!’

If you want to empty a crowded room strong body pong will usually do the trick.

2009, Martin Fine, The Devil′s Fragrance, page 109:

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) A stench, a bad smell.


pong

en-verb

pong (third-person singular simple present pongs, present participle ponging, simple past and past participle ponged)

pongs (present singular third-person)
ponging (participle present)
ponged (participle past)
ponged (past)

1997, Taufiq Ismail, David M. E. Roskies (translator and editor), Stop Thief!, Black Clouds Over the Isle of Gods and Other Modern Indonesian Short Stories, page 97,
On she walked at a crawling pace, ponging of sweat, drops of mucus and blood falling between her feet.

2009, Susan Brocker, Saving Sam, HarperCollins, New Zealand, unnumbered page,
The place ponged, like the smell of stale cat pee.

“[…]That toothless bloke ponged. Couldn′t you smell him? He smelled like a bloody pub floor at closing time.”

2010, Robin Easton, Naked in Eden: My Adventure and Awakening in the Australian Rainforest, page 63:

2011, Victor Pemberton, We′ll Sing at Dawn, 2012, eBook, Headline Publishing, unnumbered page,
[…] and this evening, Eileen Perkins′s daughter Rita ponged with the smell of cheap carbolic soap, after a late-afternoon visit to the public baths down Hornsey Road.

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) To stink, to smell bad.


stinka

eo-head

stinka (accusative singular stinkan, plural stinkaj, accusative plural stinkajn)

stinkan (accusative singular)
stinkaj (plural)
stinkajn (accusative plural)

Of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch stinken and German stinken.


abaci

aa-noun

abáci m (plural abcitté f or abiicá f or abaacá f or aboocá f)

abáci (canonical masculine)
abcitté (feminine plural)
abiicá (feminine plural)
abaacá (feminine plural)
aboocá (feminine plural)
abáci (absolutive)
abáci (predicative)
abací (subjective)
abací (genitive)
abácil (l-case with-postposition)
abácik (k-case with-postposition)
abácit (t-case with-postposition)
abácih (h-case with-postposition)


rancidus

la-adj

rancidus (feminine rancida, neuter rancidum); first/second-declension adjective

rancida (feminine)
rancidum (neuter)
rancidus (masculine nominative singular)
rancida (feminine nominative singular)
rancidum (neuter nominative singular)
rancidī (masculine nominative singular)
rancidae (feminine nominative plural)
rancida (neuter nominative plural)
rancidī (genitive masculine singular)
rancidae (feminine genitive singular)
rancidī (genitive neuter singular)
rancidōrum (genitive masculine singular)
rancidārum (feminine genitive plural)
rancidōrum (genitive neuter plural)
rancidō (dative masculine singular)
rancidae (dative feminine singular)
rancidō (dative neuter singular)
rancidīs (dative feminine masculine neuter)
rancidum (accusative masculine singular)
rancidam (accusative feminine singular)
rancidum (accusative neuter singular)
rancidōs (accusative masculine singular)
rancidās (accusative feminine plural)
rancida (accusative neuter plural)
rancidō (ablative masculine singular)
rancidā (ablative feminine singular)
rancidō (ablative neuter singular)
rancidīs (ablative feminine masculine neuter)
rancide (masculine singular vocative)
rancida (feminine singular vocative)
rancidum (neuter singular vocative)
rancidī (masculine singular vocative)
rancidae (feminine plural vocative)
rancida (neuter plural vocative)

Balkan Romance:

Romanian: rânced

Dalmatian:

rancetiv

Italo-Romance:

Italian: rancido

Neapolitan: ranceto

Sicilian: rancitu

Calabrian: grancitu

Padanian:

Friulian: rangid

Lombard: rans

Piedmontese: ransi, ranss

Venetan: granzio

Southern Gallo-Romance:

Catalan: ranci

Old Occitan: ransa f (hapax)

Ibero-Romance:

Galician: ranzo; rancio, arrancio, rencio (Oriental)

Portuguese: ranço

Spanish: rancio

→ French: rancio

Insular Romance:

Sardinian: ranchidu (Logudorese)

desctree

Vulgar Latin: *rancicus
Corsican: rancicu
Italian: rancico
Piedmontese: rancigu

Borrowings:

→ English: rancid

→ Middle French: rance

French: rance

→ Dutch: rans, ranzig

→ German: ranzig

→ Portuguese: râncido

[ˈräŋkɪd̪ʊs̠]


hircus

la-noun

hircus m (genitive hircī); second declension

hircī (genitive)
hircus (nominative singular)
hircī (nominative plural)
hircī (genitive singular)
hircōrum (genitive plural)
hircō (dative singular)
hircīs (dative plural)
hircum (accusative singular)
hircōs (accusative plural)
hircō (ablative singular)
hircīs (ablative plural)
hirce (singular vocative)
hircī (plural vocative)

Catalan: erc

→⇒ English: hircine, hircinous, hircose

Galician: hirco

Italian: irco

Sicilian: ircu

Spanish: hirco

Unknown. As with other Indo-European words for “goat”, a reliable Proto-Indo-European etymon cannot be formally reconstructed. Nonetheless, compare Old High German irah, irh (“buck”), which Pokorny says is borrowed from the Latin. Possibly related to hirpus (“wolf”) and/or hirtus (“hairy, shaggy”); according to Pokorny, all three are from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰers- (“to bristle”).
Varro, in De Lingua Latina cites a Sabine form: fircus.

der

(by extension) the rank smell of the armpits


vapour

English: vapour, vapor

Scots: vapour

Yola: vaaper

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman vapour, from Latin vapor.

(rare) A airborne smell; a nasal sensation transmitted via the air.


odor

en-noun

odor (countable and uncountable, plural odors)

From Middle English odour, borrowed from Anglo-Norman odour, from Old French odor, from Latin odor.
Cognates
* Swedish odör (“bad smell”)

Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odour of camphor was unmistakable.

1895 May 7, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter X, in The Time Machine: An Invention, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC:

Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive.

رَائِحَة

any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume


odor

la-noun

odor m (genitive odōris); third declension

odōris (genitive)
odor (nominative singular)
odōrēs (nominative plural)
odōris (genitive singular)
odōrum (genitive plural)
odōrī (dative singular)
odōribus (dative plural)
odōrem (accusative singular)
odōrēs (accusative plural)
odōre (ablative singular)
odōribus (ablative plural)
odor (singular vocative)
odōrēs (plural vocative)

Asturian: golor

Catalan: olor

→ Czech: odér

→ Esperanto: odoro

→ Ido: odoro

Friulian: odôr, nulôr

Italian: odore

Occitan: odor, olor

Old French: odor

Anglo-Norman: odour

→ Middle English: odour

English: odor, odour

French: odeur

→ Swedish: odör

Portuguese: odor

→ Romanian: odor, odoare, urdoare

Romansch: odur, udur, odour

→ Sicilian: uduri

Spanish: olor

Venetan: odor, udor

Via rhotacism from Old Latin odōs (plural: odōses), from Proto-Italic *odōs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃éd-os, from *h₃ed- (“to smell”).


park

park (nominative singular)
parki (nominative plural)
parku (genitive singular)
parków (genitive plural)
parkowi (dative singular)
parkom (dative plural)
park (accusative singular)
parki (accusative plural)
parkiem (instrumental singular)
parkami (instrumental plural)
parku (locative singular)
parkach (locative plural)
parku (singular vocative)
parki (plural vocative)

(obsolete) scent released by goats, deer, or hares during breeding periods


malodorous

en-adj

malodorous (comparative more malodorous, superlative most malodorous)

more malodorous (comparative)
most malodorous (superlative)

/ˌmælˈəʊ.də.ɹəs/

There were malodorous garbage bags aplenty outside her house.


rank

rank (comparative ranker or more rank, superlative rankest or most rank)

ranker (comparative)
more rank (comparative)
rankest (superlative)
most rank (superlative)

From Middle English rank (“strong, proud”), from Old English ranc (“proud, haughty, arrogant, insolent, forward, overbearing, showy, ostentatious, splendid, bold, valiant, noble, brave, strong, full-grown, mature”), from Proto-West Germanic *rank, from Proto-Germanic *rankaz (“straight”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“straight, direct”). Cognate with Dutch rank (“slender, slim”), Low German rank (“slender, projecting, lank”), Danish rank (“straight, erect, slender”), Swedish rank (“slender, shaky, wonky”), Icelandic rakkur (“straight, slender, bold, valiant”).

cog

Your gym clothes are rank, bro – when'd you last wash 'em?

Divers sea fowls taste rank of the fish on which they ordinarily feed.

1661, Robert Boyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-physical Doubts & Paradoxes, […], London: […] J. Cadwell for J. Crooke, […], →OCLC:

(obsolete) Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.

Strong to the senses; offensive; noisome.

Having a very strong and bad taste or odor.


petrichor

/ˈpɛt.ɹɪˌkɔɹ

From petr(o)- + ichor.
Coined by Australian scientist Richard Grenfell Thomas in 1964 for the article “Nature of Argillaceous Odour”, co-authored by Isabel Joy Bear and published in the journal Nature.

coinage

Though it had yet to begin raining, the familiar smell of petrichor appeared to be already present and Neelam suddenly wished she was sitting at home with a nice cup of tea and a good book.

2010, Val Panesar, For the Sake of the Future:

The sources of the heavenly scent during and immediately after it rains are petrichor and geosmin. Petricor is an oil produced by plants then absorbed by rocks and soil and released into the air during rainfall.

2012, Diane Olson, A Nature Lover's Almanac, Gibbs Smith, →ISBN:

The distinctive scent, caused by geosmin, which accompanies the first rain after a long, warm, dry spell.

petrichor

distinctive scent which accompanies rain

He hypothesizes that this factor may be petrichor, an oil which has been isolated from silicate minerals and rocks[…].

1980, John E Bardach et al., Fish Behavior and its Use in the Capture and Culture of Fishes:

The yellow organic oil that yields this scent.


flavour

English: flavour, flavor

Borrowed from Old French flaor, flaour, from Vulgar Latin *flātor. Medial -v- is due to the influence of savour (“taste”).


funk

en-noun

funk (countable and uncountable, plural funks)

1620, from French dialectal (Norman) funquer, funquier (“to smoke, reek”), from Old Northern French fungier (“to smoke”), from Vulgar Latin fūmicāre, alteration of Latin fūmigāre (“to smoke, fumigate”). Related to French dialect funkière (“smoke”). More at fumigate.

The foulest stench is in the air; the funk of 40,000 years and grizzly ghouls from every tomb are closing in to seal your doom.

1982, “Thriller”, in Rod Temperton (lyrics), Quincy Jones (music), Thriller, performed by Michael Jackson (featuring Vincent Price), Epic Records:

(countable) Foul or unpleasant smell, especially body odor.


funk

en-verb

funk (third-person singular simple present funks, present participle funking, simple past and past participle funked)

funks (present singular third-person)
funking (participle present)
funked (participle past)
funked (past)

(intransitive) To emit an offensive smell; to stink.

He funks Basketia and her son to death

Funking a cobbler – that is, blowing smoke into his stall; smoking cigars at divans and club houses; […]

(transitive) To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke.

散發臭味 /散发臭味

to envelop with an offensive smell or smoke


odour

en-noun

odour (countable and uncountable, plural odours)

So after learning a great deal about iron founding and much more about pike fishing, one regretfully took leave of a shop full of kindly characters and proceeded to a worse lot of odours in the brass foundry.

1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 343:

(British spelling) Alternative spelling of odor


odour

English: odour, odor

Scots: odour

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman odour, from Latin odor.

A smell or scent; a nasal sensation (often intrinsic):

The scent of living matter or substances.


smelly

en-adj

smelly (comparative smellier, superlative smelliest)

smellier (comparative)
smelliest (superlative)

above board

antonym(s) of “having a quality that arouses suspicion”

She was hesitant to remove her shoes, as her socks were rather smelly.


fetid

fetid (comparative more fetid, superlative most fetid)

more fetid (comparative)
most fetid (superlative)

Borrowed from Latin fētidus (“having offensive odour”), originally fēteō (“to stink”).

bor+

I caught the fetid odor of dirty socks.

[…] this room, where misfortune seems to ooze, where speculation lurks in corners, and of which Madame Vauquer inhales the warm, fetid air without being nauseated.

1878, Henry James, “Honoré de Balzac”, in French Poets and Novelists, London: Macmillan, II, p. 122:


bouquet

Borrowed from French bouquet. Doublet of bosket.

This Bordeaux has an interesting bouquet.

The remarkable flower bouquet lasts for hours until it dissolves into a sweet vanilla smell.


niffy

en-adj

niffy (comparative niffier, superlative niffiest)

niffier (comparative)
niffiest (superlative)


whiffy

whiffy (comparative whiffier, superlative whiffiest)

whiffier (comparative)
whiffiest (superlative)

niffy

giving off a bad smell; colloquial/slang


pongy

pongy (comparative pongier, superlative pongiest)

pongier (comparative)
pongiest (superlative)

2001, Ken Campbell, Home, in John O′Connor, Scripts and Sketches, Heinemann Educational, UK, page 79,
Look, they′ve even put a pair of old pongy socks exactly like mine in the corner by the door, exactly like I bunged them last Sunday. Mind you, they are a bit pongier than I remembered. But mind you, they would get pongier over the week.

Moments later, a small, sobbing figure would emerge—dirty as a rat and smelling pongier than the rottenest egg.

2005, James Duncan, Sweets That Eat Children!, page 2:

In France, Époisses is known as the pongiest of its 500-odd cheeses; in the UK 19 humans and an electronic nose voted Vieux-Boulogne the world's smelliest cheese.

2010, Lonely Planet staff, The Europe Book: A Journey Through Every Country on the Continent, page 57:

(UK, Australia, New Zealand, informal) Having a bad smell.


faro

unk

Obscure

sense of smell, especially that of an animal


deodorization

en-noun

deodorization (countable and uncountable, plural deodorizations)

The act of depriving of odor, especially of offensive odors resulting from impurities.


hircine

en-adj

hircine (comparative more hircine, superlative most hircine)

more hircine (comparative)
most hircine (superlative)

First attested in its present form in 1650–1660: From Middle English hircyne, from Latin hircīnus (“of a goat”, “goat-scented”); equivalent to hircus (“a male goat”) + -īnus (“-ine”). Cognate with French hircin. Compare caprine, haedine.

der

Possessed of an odour reminiscent of goats.


hircine

(mineralogy) A fossil amorphous resin which, when burnt, gives off a pungent, hircinous aroma.


reek

en-noun

reek (countable and uncountable, plural reeks)

From Middle English rek, reke (“smoke”), from Old English rēc, from Proto-West Germanic *rauki, from Proto-Germanic *raukiz, from Proto-Indo-European *rowgi-.
See also West Frisian reek, riik, Dutch rook, Low German Röök, German Rauch, Danish røg, Norwegian Bokmål røyk; also Lithuanian rū̃kti (“to smoke”), rū̃kas (“smoke, fog”), Albanian regj (“to tan”).


colonia

From agua de Colonia, from French eau de Cologne, ultimately from Latin Colōnia Claudia Āra Agrippīnēnsium, Cologne, the current city in Germany, and cognate of English colony.


unctuous

en-adj

unctuous (comparative more unctuous, superlative most unctuous)

more unctuous (comparative)
most unctuous (superlative)

/ˈʌŋ(k)t͡ʃʊəs/

From Late Middle English unctuous [and other forms], borrowed from Medieval Latin ūnctuōsus (“greasy, oily, unctuous”), from Latin ūnctum (“ointment; rich banquet; rich savoury dish”) + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of; overly’ forming adjectives from nouns). Ūnctum is a noun use of the perfect passive participle of unguō (“to anoint; to smear with oil, to grease or oil”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷ- (“to anoint; to smear”).
Cognates
* Italian untuoso
* Old French onctües, unctueus, unctuose (modern French onctueux)
* Portuguese unctuoso
* Spanish untuoso

nb...

unctouus, unctuos, unctuose, unctuouse, unctuus, ungtuous

мазен

of a person: profusely polite, especially in an insincerely earnest and unpleasant manner

Again, Taſts may properly be ſaid, to be Soft or Hard. A Soft Taſte, is either Vapid, as in VVatery Bodies, VVhites of Eggs, Starch, Fine Boles, &c. Or Unctuous, as in Oyls, Fat, &c. […] Contrary to an Unctuous Taſte, are Aſtringent, and Pungent; as in Galls, and Spirit of Sal Aromanick.

1675 April 4 (Gregorian calendar), Nehemiah Grew, “[Several Lectures Read before the Royal Society.] A Discourse of the Diversities and Causes of Tasts Chiefly in Plants. Read before the Royal Society, March 25. 1675. Chapter I. Of the Several Sorts of Simple and Compounded Tasts; and the Degrees of Both.”, in The Anatomy of Plants. […], [London]: […] W. Rawlins, for the author, published 1682, →OCLC, page 280:

The halls and passages of the castle were already permeated with rich and unctuous smells, and a delicate nose might have picked out and arranged, by their finer or coarser vapors, the dishes preparing for the upper and lower tables.

1866 January, Bayard Taylor, “Beauty and the Beast. A Story of Old Russia.”, in Beauty and the Beast: And Tales of Home, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam & Sons, […], published 1872, →OCLC, section III, page 15:

"Unctuous is probably quite a good description, but there's a sweetness, too, and a mouthfeel," ventures Heston Blumenthal, chef at the Fat Duck at Bray.

2000 January 28, Oliver Burkeman, “Things that make you go yum”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-30:

Of an aroma or taste, or a beverage (such as coffee or wine) or food (such as gravy, meat, or sauce): having layers of concentrated, velvety flavour; lush, rich.

romig

of an aroma or taste, or a beverage or food: having layers of concentrated, velvety flavour — see also lush, rich


sniff

en-noun

sniff (countable and uncountable, plural sniffs)

From Middle English sniffen, of imitative origin.

onomatopoeic

imitative

Tottenham did have a sniff of goal when Defoe's drilled cross just eluded his strike partner at the far post but their best effort came early in the second half when Ryan Fredericks cut in from the right before firing into the side netting.

2011 November 3, Chris Bevan, “Rubin Kazan 1 - 0 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport:

Telecoms firms want a sniff, having invested heavily in ultra-fast, low-latency 5G spectrum.

2021 December 18, “The billionaire battle for the metaverse”, in The Economist, →ISSN:

(countable, colloquial) A brief perception, or tiny amount.


aroma

From Late Latin arōmata (“spices”) (or arōma (“spice”)), from Ancient Greek ἄρωμα (árōma, “seasoning, spicy and/or fragrant smell”).

der

I love the aroma of cinnamon.

The smell of fresh asphalt hangs heavy in the air at Dore & Totley station. It's even powerful enough to overcome the usual delightful aromas emanating from the well-known curry house which occupies the original platform building.

2024 May 1, Tom Ingall, “Hope springs eternal for better services”, in RAIL, number 1008, page 52:

A smell; especially a pleasant spicy or fragrant one.


aroma

Borrowed from Latin arōma, from Ancient Greek ἄρωμα (árōma).


aromatic

en-adj

aromatic (comparative more aromatic, superlative most aromatic)

more aromatic (comparative)
most aromatic (superlative)

/ˌæɹ.əˈmæt.ɪk/

/ˌɛɹ.əˈmæt.ɪk/

[ˌɛɹ.əˈmæɾ.ɪk]

/ˌæɹ.əˈmæt.ɪk/

[ˌæɹ.əˈmæɾ.ɪk]

Late Middle English, from Middle French and Old French aromatique, from Late Latin aromaticus, from Ancient Greek ἄρωμα (árōma, “seasoning, spicy and/or fragrant smell”).

aromatic herbs

aromatic taste

Beautifully adorned in tuxedo black with brilliant white stripes or spots, skunks are known mainly for their aromatic properties, but they are also efficient predators of insects and other small game.

2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press,, →ISBN, page 35:


stench

From Middle English stench, from Old English stenċ (“stench, odor, fragrance”), from Proto-Germanic *stankwiz (“smell, fragrance, odor”), from Proto-Indo-European *stengʷ- (“to push, thrust”). Cognate with Dutch stank (“stench, odor”), German Stank, Gestank (“stench, odor, smell”), Danish stank (“stench”), Swedish stank (“stench”), Icelandic stækja (“stench”).


stench

English: stench

Scots: stench, stinch

Originally two distinct nouns:
* Old English stenċ, from Proto-West Germanic *stankwi, from Proto-Germanic *stankwiz.
* Old English stynċ, from Proto-West Germanic *stunkwi, from Proto-Germanic *stunkwiz.

A stench; an unpleasant or repulsive smell:

Something that causes or has such a smell.

(rare, Early Middle English) A smell or scent (good or bad).


musk

en-noun

musk (countable and uncountable, plural musks)

→ Irish: musc

→ Welsh: mwsg

From Middle English muske, borrowed from Old French musc, from Late Latin muscus, from Ancient Greek μόσχος (móskhos), from Middle Persian [script needed] (mwšk' /mušk/) whence Persian مشک (mošk). Ultimately from Sanskrit मुष्क (muṣka, “testicle”), the shape of the gland of animals secreting the substance being compared to human testicles, a diminutive of मूष् (mūṣ, “mouse”), the shape of human testicles being compared to mice, from Proto-Indo-European *muh₂s (“mouse”). Cognate with mouse.

der

I was so excited I could smell my own musk.

(slang, colloquial, vulgar) The scent of human genitalia when aroused or unwashed.


fume

English: fume

Scots: fume

Borrowed from Old French fum, from Latin fūmus, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂mós.


nidorous

en-adj

nidorous (comparative more nidorous, superlative most nidorous)

more nidorous (comparative)
most nidorous (superlative)

From nidor (“the unpleasant smell of some cooked animal substances”) + -ous, or from Medieval Latin nidorosus.

affix

‘Taste my breath—is it not fetid, foul, and nidorous?’

1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XVIII, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 163:

That old man's niderous whispered breath had entered into MacMurrough's heart an insufflation of—of what, exactly?

2002, Jamie O'Neill, chapter 10, in At Swim, Two Boys, →ISBN, page 240:

(literary) Emitting a strong, unpleasant odor, especially one like that of cooking fat or similar greasy substances.

палёный

Emitting the odor or taste of roasted meat, especially rotten meat


odorous

en-adj

odorous (comparative more odorous, superlative most odorous)

more odorous (comparative)
most odorous (superlative)

From Middle English odorous, from Medieval Latin odōrōsus, equivalent to odor + -ous.

The table was piled with odorous lilies.


odorless

They were taken unawares and overcome when the room filled with a lethal, odorless gas.

The garlion is a cross between the garlic and onion; the topeppo combines the tomato and the pepper. We have the odorless onion, the odorless cabbage, the lemon cucumber that grows on a vine but looks like a lemon, and a giant cucumber

1936, The Reader's Digest, volume 29, page 99:

The Invisible Killer Dihydrogen monoxide is colorless, odorless, tasteless, and kills uncounted thousands of people every year. Most of these deaths are caused by accidental inhalation of DHMO, but the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide do not end there.

1995, John December, quoting Craig Jackson, The World Wide Web Unleashed, 2nd edition, Indianapolis, Ind.: Sams.net, →ISBN, page 450:


odourless

They were taken unawares and overcome when the room filled with a lethal, odourless gas.

Smiling, young, muscular, paunchless, probably odourless, he went.

1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 357:


fragrance

en-noun

fragrance (countable and uncountable, plural fragrances)

/ˈfɹeɪɡɹəns/

Borrowed from French fragrance, from Latin fragrantia. See fragrant.

You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this version now and next time cook the sauce down with crushed, split lemongrass and a shredded lime leaf.

2015 October 27, Matt Preston, The Simple Secrets to Cooking Everything Better, Plum, →ISBN, page 192:


fragrance

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin fragrantia, from fragrō, fragrāre. Related to flairer, which was inherited.


spicy

en-adj

spicy (comparative spicier, superlative spiciest)

spicier (comparative)
spiciest (superlative)

From spice + -y, attested since the 16th century.

This curry is too spicy for me. I can't eat it.

(informal, of flavors) Provoking a burning sensation due to the presence of capsaicin.

حَار

providing a burning sensation due to chilies and other spices

She breathed in the strong, spicy aroma.

The breath of the mountain heifer was fragrant as the gales of Sirendiep, by feeding on ſpicy herbs.

1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page iv:

(of foods, flavors, or odors) Tangy, zesty, or pungent.

I don't want my children to see the spicy images on this web site.

(Internet slang) Risqué, sexy, racy; mildly pornographic.


waft

From Middle English waften, of uncertain origin. Possibly from unattested Old English *wafettan, from wafian (“to wave”) + -ettan, or perhaps borrowed from Middle Dutch wachten (“to guard, provide for”).
See also German wabern (“to waft”), Faroese veiftra (“to wave”) and Icelandic váfa (“to fluctuate, waver, doubt”).

der

Meanwhile, the wafts from his old home pleaded, whispered, conjured, and finally claimed him imperiously.

1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, London: Methuen, →ISBN:

Patrol Magazine says of this Oxford, Miss., band: "Guitars are responsible for every noise in Colour Revolt's mix—not a single note of piano, waft of synthesizer, or evidence of electronic tampering are to be found.[…]"

2010 September, “The SLM Calendar”, in St. Louis Magazine, volume 16, number 9, St. Louis, Mo.: Hartmann Pub. Co., →ISSN, page 170:

Something (such as an odor or perfume) that is carried through the air.


Nase

de-noun

Nase f (genitive Nase, plural Nasen, diminutive Näschen n or Näslein n)

Nase (genitive)
Nasen (plural)
Näschen (diminutive neuter)
Näslein (diminutive neuter)
Nase (nominative singular)
Nasen (definite nominative plural)
Nase (genitive singular)
Nasen (definite genitive plural)
Nase (dative singular)
Nasen (dative definite plural)
Nase (accusative singular)
Nasen (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German nase, from Old High German nasa, from Proto-West Germanic *nasu, from Proto-Germanic *nasō, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s.
Compare Low German Nees, Norwegian nese, English nose.


whiff

en-verb

whiff (third-person singular simple present whiffs, present participle whiffing, simple past and past participle whiffed)

whiffs (present singular third-person)
whiffing (participle present)
whiffed (participle past)
whiffed (past)

The noun is possibly:
* partly a variant of Middle English wef, weffe (“bad smell, stench, stink; exhalation; vapour; tendency of something to go bad (?)”) [and other forms], possibly a variant of either:
** waf, waif, waife (“odour, scent”), possibly from waven (“to move to and fro, sway, wave; to stray, wander; to move in a weaving manner; (figuratively) to hesitate, vacillate”), from Old English wafian (“to wave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”); or
** wef (“a blow, stroke”), from weven (“to travel, wander; to move to and fro, flutter, waver; to blow something away, waft; to cause something to move; to fall; to cut deeply; to sever; to give up, yield; to give deference to; to avoid; to afflict, trouble; to beckon, signal”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps from Old English wefan (“to weave”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”)), or from wǣfan (see bewǣfan, ymbwǣfan); and
* partly onomatopoeic.
Noun sense 6 (“name of a number of flatfish”) is possibly derived from sense 1 (“brief, gentle breeze; a light gust of air”), sense 4 (“small quantity of cloud, smoke, vapour, etc.”), and other such senses.
The verb and adjective are derived from the noun. Verb sense 2.6 (“to catch fish by dragging a handline near the surface of the water from a moving boat”) is possibly derived from sense 1.1 (“to carry or convey (something) by, or as by, a whiff or puff of air”), sense 2.2 (“to be carried, or move as if carried, by a puff of air”), and other such senses.
The interjection is derived from noun sense 7.4 (“a sound like that of air passing through a small opening; a short or soft whistle”).


foxy

en-adj

foxy (comparative foxier, superlative foxiest)

foxier (comparative)
foxiest (superlative)


redolent

redolent (comparative more redolent, superlative most redolent)

more redolent (comparative)
most redolent (superlative)

From Middle English redolent (first attested in 1400), from Old French redolent, from Latin redolentem, present participle of redoleō (“I emit a scent”), from red- + oleō (“I smell”).

Most of the articles were home-made; the bread, the yellow butter, as golden as the cups to which it has given name; the thickest cream, and a honeycomb redolent of the thyme which even then echoed with the hum of the bees.

1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “(please specify the page)”, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, pages 163–164:

His breath is already redolent of whiskey.

1861, Francis Colburn Adams, chapter 32, in An Outcast:

Stephen, that is when the accosting figure came to close quarters, though he was not in an over sober state himself recognised Corley's breath redolent of rotten cornjuice.

1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 572:

Having the smell of the article in question.


fusty

fusty (comparative fustier, superlative fustiest)

fustier (comparative)
fustiest (superlative)

From Old French fust (“wood”) (modern French fût (“cask”)), from Latin fūstis (“a cudgel”).
Compare Scots foosty.

In contrast to exploitation or suppression or even alienation, involution is presented as part of the natural order of things—like bad weather. You can’t point fingers at an abstraction or rally against a fusty term from an anthropology text.

2021 May 14, Yi-Ling Liu, “China’s “Involuted” Generation”, in The New Yorker:

An anonymously sourced report by one of Britain’s freewheeling tabloid newspapers has sparked a debate over both tabloid journalistic ethics and sexism in Parliament, leading some to question whether the institution is capable of shedding its fusty reputation and becoming an inclusive workplace.

2022 April 26, Stephen Castle, Megan Specia, “U.K. Tabloid Accuses Lawmaker of ‘Basic Instinct’ Move, Highlighting Sexism in Parliament”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Oh sweet surprise - oh dear delight
To find it undisputed quite -
All musty, fusty rules despite,
That Art is wrong and Nature right!

1893, W. S. Gilbert, Utopia, Limited, Act II:

(figuratively, by extension) Old-fashioned, refusing to change or update.

старомоден

old-fashioned, refusing to change or update


suavis

la-adj

suāvis (neuter suāve, comparative suāvior, superlative suāvissimus, adverb suāve or suāviter); third-declension two-termination adjective

suāvis (canonical)
suāve (neuter)
suāvior (comparative)
suāvissimus (superlative)
suāve (adverb)
suāviter (adverb)
suāvis (feminine masculine nominative singular)
suāve (neuter nominative singular)
suāvēs (feminine masculine nominative singular)
suāvia (neuter nominative plural)
suāvis (feminine genitive masculine neuter singular)
suāvium (feminine genitive masculine neuter)
suāvī (dative feminine masculine neuter singular)
suāvibus (dative feminine masculine neuter)
suāvem (accusative feminine masculine singular)
suāve (accusative neuter singular)
suāvēs (accusative feminine masculine singular)
suāvīs (accusative feminine masculine singular)
suāvia (accusative neuter plural)
suāvī (ablative feminine masculine neuter singular)
suāvibus (ablative feminine masculine neuter)
suāvis (feminine masculine singular vocative)
suāve (neuter singular vocative)
suāvēs (feminine masculine singular vocative)
suāvia (neuter plural vocative)

Occitano-Romance:

Occitan: suau

Catalan: suau

Aragonese: suau

Italian: soave, suave (archaic)

Old French: soef

Middle French: souef

Norman: souef

→ Middle English: suave

English: suave

→ Middle French: suave

French: suave

→ Portuguese: suave

→ Spanish: suave

[ˈs̠u̯äːu̯ɪs̠]

[s̠uˈäːu̯ɪs̠]

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *swéh₂dus (“sweet”). The extension of the u-stem into an i-stem is regular (compare brevis, tenuis) and must have occurred before the loss of *-d- in medial *-dw-.


fetor

en-noun

fetor (countable and uncountable, plural fetors)

Heʼd thrown rancid meat in a fire to fill the woods with the ripe fetor of death.

2021, Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland, #Merky Books, page 39:


fetor

la-noun

fētor m (genitive fētōris); third declension

fētor (canonical masculine)
fētōris (genitive)
fētor (nominative singular)
fētōrēs (nominative plural)
fētōris (genitive singular)
fētōrum (genitive plural)
fētōrī (dative singular)
fētōribus (dative plural)
fētōrem (accusative singular)
fētōrēs (accusative plural)
fētōre (ablative singular)
fētōribus (ablative plural)
fētor (singular vocative)
fētōrēs (plural vocative)

Asturian: fedor

Catalan: fetor

English: fetor, foetor

Esperanto: fetoro

Italian: fetore

Old French: feteur

Galician: fedor

Polish: fetor

Portuguese: fedor

Sicilian: fetu

Spanish: hedor, fetor

From fēteō (“to stink, smell bad”) + -or.


fetor

fetorek (diminutive)
fetor (nominative singular)
fetory (nominative plural)
fetoru (genitive singular)
fetorów (genitive plural)
fetorowi (dative singular)
fetorom (dative plural)
fetor (accusative singular)
fetory (accusative plural)
fetorem (instrumental singular)
fetorami (instrumental plural)
fetorze (locative singular)
fetorach (locative plural)
fetorze (singular vocative)
fetory (plural vocative)


fragrant

en-adj

fragrant (comparative more fragrant, superlative most fragrant)

more fragrant (comparative)
most fragrant (superlative)

Borrowed from Latin frāgrāns, present active participle of frāgrō (“I smell”).

Sweet-smelling; having a pleasant (usually strong) scent or fragrance.


antiperspirant

en-noun

antiperspirant (countable and uncountable, plural antiperspirants)

(countable, uncountable) A substance used to minimize sweating or perspiration, and usually applied to the underarm area.


deodorant

From Latin de- + odorans, present participle of odorare (“to smell”), from odor (“a smell”); see odor. By surface analysis, de- + odor + -ant.

desodorante

any agent to eliminate, reduce, mask, or control odor

The only apparent difference between Playtex deodorant and nondeodorant tampons was the deodorant, yet the deodorant tampons did not stimulate the production of TSST-1.

1987, Amy C Lee Wong, Factors affecting growth of Staphylococcus aureus and production of toxic shock syndrome-1:

Any agent acting to eliminate, reduce, mask, or control odor.

Banned are newspapers and books, noncotton clothing, after-shave lotions and deodorants, all nonorganic or processed foods[…].

1988 January 22, Robert McClory, “The Yeast of Our Problems”, in Chicago Reader:

An odor-controlling substance applied to the underarm to counteract odor from perspiration.

deodorant

odor-controlling cosmetic for the underarm


deodorant

acting or including an agent to eliminate, reduce, mask, or control odor.


funky

en-adj

funky (comparative funkier or more funky, superlative funkiest or most funky)

funkier (comparative)
more funky (comparative)
funkiest (superlative)
most funky (superlative)

They could scarcely bear their knowledge, nor could they have borne the sight of Rufus, but they knew why he was in the streets tonight, why he rode subways all night long, why his stomach growled, why his hair was nappy, his armpits funky, his pants and shoes too thin, and why he did not dare to stop and take a leak.

1962, James Baldwin, Another Country, New York, N. Y.: The Dial Press, published 1963 January, page 4:

JAMES CARTER: You smell a little funky; I think you stepped in some rat shit.

2001, Jeff Nathanson, Rush Hour 2, New Line Cinema:

My husband thinks I'm bathing them more, but I'm not, they just lost that funky smell.

2017, Bruce Fife, Coconut Therapy for Pets, page 47:


brockle

brockle (comparative more brockle, superlative most brockle)

more brockle (comparative)
most brockle (superlative)

Uncertain: possibly from Scots, Back-formation from broccoli.

Of food odors: malodorous, flatulent, pungent: smelling of sulfur, hydrogen sulfide, or hydrogen disulfide.


cay

head

咳, 荄, 𠹽, 𡀲, 𨐮, 𨢟, 𫐝

vi-adj

咳, 荄, 𠹽, 𡀲, 𨐮, 𨢟, 𫐝

咳 (CJK)
荄 (CJK)
𠹽 (CJK)
𡀲 (CJK)
𨐮 (CJK)
𨢟 (CJK)
𫐝 (CJK)

có vị cay

có mùi cay

cay mắt

having one's eyes irritated as if they were by pepper

(of sensation) hot, spicy, or reminiscent of chili pepper


stinky

en-adj

stinky (comparative stinkier or more stinky, superlative stinkiest or most stinky)

stinkier (comparative)
more stinky (comparative)
stinkiest (superlative)
most stinky (superlative)

From Middle English stinky, stynky, equivalent to stink + -y. Compare Dutch stinkig (“stinky, foul, rotten”), German stinkig (“stinky”), Hunsrik stinkich.

What's that stinky smell?

Having a strong, unpleasant smell; stinking.


feder

pt-verb

feder (first-person singular present fedo, first-person singular preterite fedi, past participle fedido)

fedo (first-person present singular)
fedi (first-person preterite singular)
fedido (participle past)
feder (impersonal infinitive)
feder (first-person infinitive singular)
federes (infinitive second-person singular)
feder (infinitive singular third-person)
federmos (first-person infinitive plural)
federdes (infinitive plural second-person)
federem (infinitive plural third-person)
fedendo (gerund)
fedido (masculine participle past singular)
fedidos (masculine participle past plural)
fedida (feminine participle past singular)
fedidas (feminine participle past plural)
fedo (first-person indicative present singular)
fedes (indicative present second-person singular)
fede (indicative present singular third-person)
fedemos (first-person indicative plural present)
fedeis (indicative plural present second-person)
fedem (indicative plural present third-person)
fedia (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
fedias (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
fedia (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
fedíamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
fedíeis (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
fediam (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
fedi (first-person indicative preterite singular)
fedeste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
fedeu (indicative preterite singular third-person)
fedemos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
fedestes (indicative plural preterite second-person)
federam (indicative plural preterite third-person)
federa (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
federas (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
federa (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
fedêramos (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
fedêreis (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
federam (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
federei (first-person future indicative singular)
federás (future indicative second-person singular)
federá (future indicative singular third-person)
federemos (first-person future indicative plural)
federeis (future indicative plural second-person)
federão (future indicative plural third-person)
federia (conditional first-person singular)
federias (conditional second-person singular)
federia (conditional singular third-person)
federíamos (conditional first-person plural)
federíeis (conditional plural second-person)
federiam (conditional plural third-person)
feda (first-person present singular subjunctive)
fedas (present second-person singular subjunctive)
feda (present singular subjunctive third-person)
fedamos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
fedais (plural present second-person subjunctive)
fedam (plural present subjunctive third-person)
fedesse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
fedesses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
fedesse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
fedêssemos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
fedêsseis (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
fedessem (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
feder (first-person future singular subjunctive)
federes (future second-person singular subjunctive)
feder (future singular subjunctive third-person)
federmos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
federdes (future plural second-person subjunctive)
federem (future plural subjunctive third-person)
fede (imperative second-person singular)
feda (imperative singular third-person)
fedamos (first-person imperative plural)
fedei (imperative plural second-person)
fedam (imperative plural third-person)
não fedas (imperative negative second-person singular)
não feda (imperative negative singular third-person)
não fedamos (first-person imperative negative plural)
não fedais (imperative negative plural second-person)
não fedam (imperative negative plural third-person)

From Old Galician-Portuguese feder, from Latin fētēre, probably from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂-. Compare Spanish heder.


aromatherapy

en-noun

aromatherapy (countable and uncountable, plural aromatherapies)

/əˌrəʊməˈθɛrəpi/

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alternative medicine
alternative medicine

(alternative medicine) The use of selected fragrances in lotions and inhalants in an effort to affect mood and promote health.


BO

BO (countable and uncountable, plural BOs)

(informal, euphemistic, uncountable) Initialism of body odour.


mephitic

en-adj

mephitic (comparative more mephitic, superlative most mephitic)

more mephitic (comparative)
most mephitic (superlative)

From Latin mephīticus, from mephītis; compare French méphitique.

"I could have borne the sight of his crutch," said she, "but the crutch and the nephew together really oppress me like a mephitic vapour."

1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter LXI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 151–152:

It is impossible to convey, in words, any idea of the hideous phantasmagoria of shifting limbs and faces which moved through the evil-smelling twilight of this terrible prison-house. Callot might have drawn it, Dante might have suggested it, but a minute attempt to describe its horrors would but disgust. There are depths in humanity which one cannot explore, as there are mephitic caverns into which one dare not penetrate.

1874, Marcus Clarke, chapter V, in For the Term of His Natural Life:

From this crawling flapping mass of obscene reptilian life came the shocking clamor which filled the air and the mephitic, horrible, musty odor which turned us sick.

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

More than that, perhaps the worst thing, was a sort of mephitic fog, moistureless and invisible, that came and went like an exhalation of the arid earth itself.

1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, paperback edition, Virago Press, page 3:

Foul-smelling or noxious, particularly of a gas or atmosphere.


noisome

noisome (comparative more noisome, superlative most noisome)

more noisome (comparative)
most noisome (superlative)

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From Middle English noysom; equivalent to noy + -some (short for annoy, from an(n)oien, enoien from Anglo-Norman anuier, from Old French enuier (French ennuyer), from Late Latin inodiare (“to make hateful”), from in- (intensive prefix) + odium (“hate”)).

Foule words is but foule wind, and foule wind is but foule breath, and foule breath is noiſome, therefore I will depart vnkist.

1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 120:

And then, ſo nice, and ſo genteel; / Such Cleanlineſs from Head to Heel: / No Humours groſs, or frowzy Steams, / No noiſom Whiffs, or ſweaty Streams, / Before, behind, above, below, / Could from her taintleſs Body flow.

1731, [Jonathan Swift], “Strephon and Chloe”, in A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed. […], Dublin, London: […] [William Bowyer] for J. Roberts […], published 1734, →OCLC, page 8:

(literary) Offensive to the senses; disgusting, unpleasant, nauseous, especially having an undesirable smell.


pungent

pungent (comparative more pungent, superlative most pungent)

more pungent (comparative)
most pungent (superlative)

Borrowed from Latin pungens (stem pungent-), present participle of pungo (“to sting”). Doublet of poignant.

I accidentally dropped the bottle of ammonia and after few seconds, a very pungent stench could be detected.

Pilton Yard, the Lynton & Barnstaple headquarters, has been taken over by a fur trading firm, and would-be trespassers to the old engine-shed are turned back by the pungent odour of heaps of carcases.

1951 February, “Notes and News: Lynton & Barnstaple Remains”, in Railway Magazine, page 136:

I can almost smell the fir scent... resinous, pungent.

1991, Paul Chadwick, Concrete: American Christmas, Dark Horse Books:

Having a strong odor that stings the nose; said especially of acidic or spicy substances.


مسك

مِسْك (canonical)
misk (romanization)
مِسْك (indefinite informal singular triptote)
الْمِسْك (definite informal singular triptote)
مِسْك (construct informal singular triptote)
مِسْكٌ (indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الْمِسْكُ (definite nominative singular triptote)
مِسْكُ (construct nominative singular triptote)
مِسْكًا (accusative indefinite singular triptote)
الْمِسْكَ (accusative definite singular triptote)
مِسْكَ (accusative construct singular triptote)
مِسْكٍ (genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الْمِسْكِ (definite genitive singular triptote)
مِسْكِ (construct genitive singular triptote)

Andalusian Arabic: مِسْك

→ Catalan: mesc, almesc

→ Spanish: almizcle
→ Tagalog: almiskle

→ Portuguese: almíscar

Gulf Arabic: مسك (misk)

→ Northern Kurdish: misk

→ Turkish: misk, mis

From Middle Persian [script needed] (mwšk' /mušk/, “musk”) (Persian مشک (mošk, “musk”)), from Sanskrit मुष्क (muṣka, “testicle, scrotum”).

der

يُسۡقَوۡنَ مِن رَّحِيقࣲ مَّخۡتُومٍ ۝ خِتَـٰمُهُۥ مِسۡكࣱۚ[…]


مسك

ar-verb

مَسَّكَ • (massaka) II (non-past يُمَسِّكُ (yumassiku), verbal noun تَمْسِيك (tamsīk))

مَسَّكَ (canonical)
massaka (romanization)
يُمَسِّكُ (non-past)
تَمْسِيك (noun-from-verb)
تَمْسِيك (noun-from-verb)
مُمَسِّك (active participle)
مُمَسَّك (participle passive)
مَسَّكْتُ (active first-person indicative masculine past perfective singular)
مَسَّكْتَ (active indicative masculine past perfective second-person singular)
مَسَّكَ (active indicative masculine past perfective singular third-person)
مَسَّكْتُمَا (active dual indicative masculine past perfective second-person)
مَسَّكَا (active dual indicative masculine past perfective third-person)
مَسَّكْنَا (active first-person indicative masculine past perfective plural)
مَسَّكْتُمْ (active indicative masculine past perfective plural second-person)
مَسَّكُوا (active indicative masculine past perfective plural third-person)
مَسَّكْتُ (active feminine first-person indicative past perfective singular)
مَسَّكْتِ (active feminine indicative past perfective second-person singular)
مَسَّكَتْ (active feminine indicative past perfective singular third-person)
مَسَّكْتُمَا (active dual feminine indicative past perfective second-person)
مَسَّكَتَا (active dual feminine indicative past perfective third-person)
مَسَّكْنَا (active feminine first-person indicative past perfective plural)
مَسَّكْتُنَّ (active feminine indicative past perfective plural second-person)
مَسَّكْنَ (active feminine indicative past perfective plural third-person)
أُمَسِّكُ (active first-person imperfective indicative masculine non-past singular)
تُمَسِّكُ (active imperfective indicative masculine non-past second-person singular)
يُمَسِّكُ (active imperfective indicative masculine non-past singular third-person)
تُمَسِّكَانِ (active dual imperfective indicative masculine non-past second-person)
يُمَسِّكَانِ (active dual imperfective indicative masculine non-past third-person)
نُمَسِّكُ (active first-person imperfective indicative masculine non-past plural)
تُمَسِّكُونَ (active imperfective indicative masculine non-past plural second-person)
يُمَسِّكُونَ (active imperfective indicative masculine non-past plural third-person)
أُمَسِّكُ (active feminine first-person imperfective indicative non-past singular)
تُمَسِّكِينَ (active feminine imperfective indicative non-past second-person singular)
تُمَسِّكُ (active feminine imperfective indicative non-past singular third-person)
تُمَسِّكَانِ (active dual feminine imperfective indicative non-past second-person)
تُمَسِّكَانِ (active dual feminine imperfective indicative non-past third-person)
نُمَسِّكُ (active feminine first-person imperfective indicative non-past plural)
تُمَسِّكْنَ (active feminine imperfective indicative non-past plural second-person)
يُمَسِّكْنَ (active feminine imperfective indicative non-past plural third-person)
أُمَسِّكَ (active first-person masculine singular subjunctive)
تُمَسِّكَ (active masculine second-person singular subjunctive)
يُمَسِّكَ (active masculine singular subjunctive third-person)
تُمَسِّكَا (active dual masculine second-person subjunctive)
يُمَسِّكَا (active dual masculine subjunctive third-person)
نُمَسِّكَ (active first-person masculine plural subjunctive)
تُمَسِّكُوا (active masculine plural second-person subjunctive)
يُمَسِّكُوا (active masculine plural subjunctive third-person)
أُمَسِّكَ (active feminine first-person singular subjunctive)
تُمَسِّكِي (active feminine second-person singular subjunctive)
تُمَسِّكَ (active feminine singular subjunctive third-person)
تُمَسِّكَا (active dual feminine second-person subjunctive)
تُمَسِّكَا (active dual feminine subjunctive third-person)
نُمَسِّكَ (active feminine first-person plural subjunctive)
تُمَسِّكْنَ (active feminine plural second-person subjunctive)
يُمَسِّكْنَ (active feminine plural subjunctive third-person)
أُمَسِّكْ (active first-person jussive masculine singular)
تُمَسِّكْ (active jussive masculine second-person singular)
يُمَسِّكْ (active jussive masculine singular third-person)
تُمَسِّكَا (active dual jussive masculine second-person)
يُمَسِّكَا (active dual jussive masculine third-person)
نُمَسِّكْ (active first-person jussive masculine plural)
تُمَسِّكُوا (active jussive masculine plural second-person)
يُمَسِّكُوا (active jussive masculine plural third-person)
أُمَسِّكْ (active feminine first-person jussive singular)
تُمَسِّكِي (active feminine jussive second-person singular)
تُمَسِّكْ (active feminine jussive singular third-person)
تُمَسِّكَا (active dual feminine jussive second-person)
تُمَسِّكَا (active dual feminine jussive third-person)
نُمَسِّكْ (active feminine first-person jussive plural)
تُمَسِّكْنَ (active feminine jussive plural second-person)
يُمَسِّكْنَ (active feminine jussive plural third-person)
مَسِّكْ (active imperative masculine second-person singular)
مَسِّكَا (active dual imperative masculine second-person)
مَسِّكُوا (active imperative masculine plural second-person)
مَسِّكِي (active feminine imperative second-person singular)
مَسِّكَا (active dual feminine imperative second-person)
مَسِّكْنَ (active feminine imperative plural second-person)
مُسِّكْتُ (first-person indicative masculine passive past perfective singular)
مُسِّكْتَ (indicative masculine passive past perfective second-person singular)
مُسِّكَ (indicative masculine passive past perfective singular third-person)
مُسِّكْتُمَا (dual indicative masculine passive past perfective second-person)
مُسِّكَا (dual indicative masculine passive past perfective third-person)
مُسِّكْنَا (first-person indicative masculine passive past perfective plural)
مُسِّكْتُمْ (indicative masculine passive past perfective plural second-person)
مُسِّكُوا (indicative masculine passive past perfective plural third-person)
مُسِّكْتُ (feminine first-person indicative passive past perfective singular)
مُسِّكْتِ (feminine indicative passive past perfective second-person singular)
مُسِّكَتْ (feminine indicative passive past perfective singular third-person)
مُسِّكْتُمَا (dual feminine indicative passive past perfective second-person)
مُسِّكَتَا (dual feminine indicative passive past perfective third-person)
مُسِّكْنَا (feminine first-person indicative passive past perfective plural)
مُسِّكْتُنَّ (feminine indicative passive past perfective plural second-person)
مُسِّكْنَ (feminine indicative passive past perfective plural third-person)
أُمَسَّكُ (first-person imperfective indicative masculine non-past passive singular)
تُمَسَّكُ (imperfective indicative masculine non-past passive second-person singular)
يُمَسَّكُ (imperfective indicative masculine non-past passive singular third-person)
تُمَسَّكَانِ (dual imperfective indicative masculine non-past passive second-person)
يُمَسَّكَانِ (dual imperfective indicative masculine non-past passive third-person)
نُمَسَّكُ (first-person imperfective indicative masculine non-past passive plural)
تُمَسَّكُونَ (imperfective indicative masculine non-past passive plural second-person)
يُمَسَّكُونَ (imperfective indicative masculine non-past passive plural third-person)
أُمَسَّكُ (feminine first-person imperfective indicative non-past passive singular)
تُمَسَّكِينَ (feminine imperfective indicative non-past passive second-person singular)
تُمَسَّكُ (feminine imperfective indicative non-past passive singular third-person)
تُمَسَّكَانِ (dual feminine imperfective indicative non-past passive second-person)
تُمَسَّكَانِ (dual feminine imperfective indicative non-past passive third-person)
نُمَسَّكُ (feminine first-person imperfective indicative non-past passive plural)
تُمَسَّكْنَ (feminine imperfective indicative non-past passive plural second-person)
يُمَسَّكْنَ (feminine imperfective indicative non-past passive plural third-person)
أُمَسَّكَ (first-person masculine passive singular subjunctive)
تُمَسَّكَ (masculine passive second-person singular subjunctive)
يُمَسَّكَ (masculine passive singular subjunctive third-person)
تُمَسَّكَا (dual masculine passive second-person subjunctive)
يُمَسَّكَا (dual masculine passive subjunctive third-person)
نُمَسَّكَ (first-person masculine passive plural subjunctive)
تُمَسَّكُوا (masculine passive plural second-person subjunctive)
يُمَسَّكُوا (masculine passive plural subjunctive third-person)
أُمَسَّكَ (feminine first-person passive singular subjunctive)
تُمَسَّكِي (feminine passive second-person singular subjunctive)
تُمَسَّكَ (feminine passive singular subjunctive third-person)
تُمَسَّكَا (dual feminine passive second-person subjunctive)
تُمَسَّكَا (dual feminine passive subjunctive third-person)
نُمَسَّكَ (feminine first-person passive plural subjunctive)
تُمَسَّكْنَ (feminine passive plural second-person subjunctive)
يُمَسَّكْنَ (feminine passive plural subjunctive third-person)
أُمَسَّكْ (first-person jussive masculine passive singular)
تُمَسَّكْ (jussive masculine passive second-person singular)
يُمَسَّكْ (jussive masculine passive singular third-person)
تُمَسَّكَا (dual jussive masculine passive second-person)
يُمَسَّكَا (dual jussive masculine passive third-person)
نُمَسَّكْ (first-person jussive masculine passive plural)
تُمَسَّكُوا (jussive masculine passive plural second-person)
يُمَسَّكُوا (jussive masculine passive plural third-person)
أُمَسَّكْ (feminine first-person jussive passive singular)
تُمَسَّكِي (feminine jussive passive second-person singular)
تُمَسَّكْ (feminine jussive passive singular third-person)
تُمَسَّكَا (dual feminine jussive passive second-person)
تُمَسَّكَا (dual feminine jussive passive third-person)
نُمَسَّكْ (feminine first-person jussive passive plural)
تُمَسَّكْنَ (feminine jussive passive plural second-person)
يُمَسَّكْنَ (feminine jussive passive plural third-person)


acer

la-adj

ācer (feminine ācris, neuter ācre, comparative ācrior, superlative ācerrimus, adverb ācriter); third-declension three-termination adjective

ācer (canonical)
ācris (feminine)
ācre (neuter)
ācrior (comparative)
ācerrimus (superlative)
ācriter (adverb)
ācer (masculine nominative singular)
ācris (feminine nominative singular)
ācre (neuter nominative singular)
ācrēs (feminine masculine nominative)
ācria (neuter nominative plural)
ācris (feminine genitive masculine neuter singular)
ācrium (feminine genitive masculine neuter)
ācrī (dative feminine masculine neuter singular)
ācribus (dative feminine masculine neuter)
ācrem (accusative feminine masculine singular)
ācre (accusative neuter singular)
ācrēs (accusative feminine masculine)
ācrīs (accusative feminine masculine)
ācria (accusative neuter plural)
ācrī (ablative feminine masculine neuter singular)
ācribus (ablative feminine masculine neuter)
ācer (masculine singular vocative)
ācris (feminine singular vocative)
ācre (neuter singular vocative)
ācrēs (feminine masculine vocative)
ācria (neuter plural vocative)

Ancient borrowings:

→ Old Irish: aicher

Irish: aichear

Later borrowings:

→ Catalan: acre

→⇒ English: acrid, acrylic

→ Esperanto: akra

→ French: âcre

→ Italian: acre

→ Portuguese: acre

→ Spanish: acre

From Proto-Italic *akris, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱrós (“sharp”). The change from o-stem to i-stem declension is irregular and not fully explained. Likewise, Latin has irregular lengthening of the vowel. Cognate with Ancient Greek ἄκρος (ákros).


Bisam

de-noun

Bisam m or (seldom) n (strong, genitive Bisams, plural Bisame or Bisams)

Bisams (genitive)
Bisame (plural)
Bisams (plural)
Bisam (definite nominative singular)
Bisame (definite nominative plural)
Bisams (definite nominative plural)
Bisams (genitive singular)
Bisame (definite genitive plural)
Bisams (definite genitive plural)
Bisam (dative singular)
Bisamen (dative definite plural)
Bisams (dative definite plural)
Bisam (accusative definite singular)
Bisame (accusative definite plural)
Bisams (accusative definite plural)

→ Dutch: bisam

From Middle High German bisem, from Old High German bisam, bisamo, borrowed from Medieval Latin bisamum, from Hebrew בֹּשֶׂם (bāśām, bōśem, “perfume”). Doublet of Balsam (“balm, balsam”) and Desman.

doublet

musk (now chiefly zoology, never used of synthetic musk)


rancour

English: rancour, rancor

Scots: rancour

From Old French rancor, from Latin rancor.

(rare) Rancidity; something which smells vile.


deodorisation

en-noun

deodorisation (countable and uncountable, plural deodorisations)

Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of deodorization.


embalsamar

pt-verb

embalsamar (first-person singular present embalsamo, first-person singular preterite embalsamei, past participle embalsamado)

embalsamo (first-person present singular)
embalsamei (first-person preterite singular)
embalsamado (participle past)
embalsamar (impersonal infinitive)
embalsamar (first-person infinitive singular)
embalsamares (infinitive second-person singular)
embalsamar (infinitive singular third-person)
embalsamarmos (first-person infinitive plural)
embalsamardes (infinitive plural second-person)
embalsamarem (infinitive plural third-person)
embalsamando (gerund)
embalsamado (masculine participle past singular)
embalsamados (masculine participle past plural)
embalsamada (feminine participle past singular)
embalsamadas (feminine participle past plural)
embalsamo (first-person indicative present singular)
embalsamas (indicative present second-person singular)
embalsama (indicative present singular third-person)
embalsamamos (first-person indicative plural present)
embalsamais (indicative plural present second-person)
embalsamam (indicative plural present third-person)
embalsamava (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
embalsamavas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
embalsamava (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
embalsamávamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
embalsamáveis (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
embalsamavam (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
embalsamei (first-person indicative preterite singular)
embalsamaste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
embalsamou (indicative preterite singular third-person)
embalsamamos (Brazil first-person indicative plural preterite)
embalsamámos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
embalsamastes (indicative plural preterite second-person)
embalsamaram (indicative plural preterite third-person)
embalsamara (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
embalsamaras (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
embalsamara (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
embalsamáramos (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
embalsamáreis (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
embalsamaram (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
embalsamarei (first-person future indicative singular)
embalsamarás (future indicative second-person singular)
embalsamará (future indicative singular third-person)
embalsamaremos (first-person future indicative plural)
embalsamareis (future indicative plural second-person)
embalsamarão (future indicative plural third-person)
embalsamaria (conditional first-person singular)
embalsamarias (conditional second-person singular)
embalsamaria (conditional singular third-person)
embalsamaríamos (conditional first-person plural)
embalsamaríeis (conditional plural second-person)
embalsamariam (conditional plural third-person)
embalsame (first-person present singular subjunctive)
embalsames (present second-person singular subjunctive)
embalsame (present singular subjunctive third-person)
embalsamemos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
embalsameis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
embalsamem (plural present subjunctive third-person)
embalsamasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
embalsamasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
embalsamasse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
embalsamássemos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
embalsamásseis (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
embalsamassem (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
embalsamar (first-person future singular subjunctive)
embalsamares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
embalsamar (future singular subjunctive third-person)
embalsamarmos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
embalsamardes (future plural second-person subjunctive)
embalsamarem (future plural subjunctive third-person)
embalsama (imperative second-person singular)
embalsame (imperative singular third-person)
embalsamemos (first-person imperative plural)
embalsamai (imperative plural second-person)
embalsamem (imperative plural third-person)
não embalsames (imperative negative second-person singular)
não embalsame (imperative negative singular third-person)
não embalsamemos (first-person imperative negative plural)
não embalsameis (imperative negative plural second-person)
não embalsamem (imperative negative plural third-person)

From en- + bálsamo (“balm; balsam”) + -ar.


duh

dȗh (animate canonical inanimate masculine)
dȗh (nominative singular)
duhȏva (dual nominative)
duhȃ (dual nominative)
duhȏvi (nominative plural)
duhȃ (genitive singular)
duhóv (dual genitive)
duhóv (genitive plural)
dȗhu (dative singular)
dȗhi (dative singular)
duhȏvoma (dative dual)
duhȏvama (dative dual)
duhȏvom (dative plural)
dȗhȏvam (dative plural)
duhȃ (accusative singular)
duhȏva (accusative dual)
duhȃ (accusative dual)
duhȏve (accusative plural)
dȗhu (locative singular)
dȗhi (locative singular)
duhȏvih (dual locative)
duhȏvih (locative plural)
dȗhom (instrumental singular)
duhȏvoma (dual instrumental)
duhȏvama (dual instrumental)
duhȏvi (instrumental plural)
dȗh (singular vocative)
duhȏva (dual vocative)
duhȃ (dual vocative)
duhȏvi (plural vocative)
dȗh (nominative singular)
dȗha (dual nominative)
dȗhi (nominative plural)
dȗha (genitive singular)
dȗhov (dual genitive)
dȗhov (genitive plural)
dȗhu (dative singular)
dȗhi (dative singular)
dȗhoma (dative dual)
dȗhama (dative dual)
dȗhom (dative plural)
dȗham (dative plural)
dȗh (accusative singular)
dȗha (accusative dual)
dȗhe (accusative plural)
dȗhu (locative singular)
dȗhi (locative singular)
dȗhih (dual locative)
dȗhah (dual locative)
dȗhih (locative plural)
dȗhah (locative plural)
dȗhom (instrumental singular)
dȗhoma (dual instrumental)
dȗhama (dual instrumental)
dȗhi (instrumental plural)
dȗh (singular vocative)
dȗha (dual vocative)
dȗhi (plural vocative)
dȗh (nominative singular)
duhȏva (dual nominative)
duhȏvi (nominative plural)
duhȃ (genitive singular)
duhóv (dual genitive)
duhóv (genitive plural)
dȗhu (dative singular)
dȗhi (dative singular)
duhȏvoma (dative dual)
duhȏvama (dative dual)
duhȏvom (dative plural)
dȗhȏvam (dative plural)
dȗh (accusative singular)
duhȏva (accusative dual)
duhȏve (accusative plural)
dȗhu (locative singular)
dȗhi (locative singular)
duhȏvih (dual locative)
duhȏvih (locative plural)
dȗhom (instrumental singular)
duhȏvoma (dual instrumental)
duhȏvama (dual instrumental)
duhȏvi (instrumental plural)
dȗh (singular vocative)
duhȏva (dual vocative)
duhȏvi (plural vocative)

sl-infl-noun

no

no

no

(obsolete, inanimate) smell (sense that detects odours)


дух

ru-noun+

дух • (dux) m anim or m inan (genitive ду́ха, nominative plural ду́хи, genitive plural ду́хов, relational adjective духово́й)

dux (romanization)
ду́ха (genitive)
ду́хи (nominative plural)
ду́хов (genitive plural)
духово́й (adjective relational)
ду́х (nominative singular)
ду́хи (nominative plural)
ду́ха (genitive singular)
ду́хов (genitive plural)
ду́ху (dative singular)
ду́хам (dative plural)
ду́ха (accusative animate singular)
ду́хов (accusative animate plural)
ду́х (accusative inanimate singular)
ду́хи (accusative inanimate plural)
ду́хом (instrumental singular)
ду́хами (instrumental plural)
ду́хе (prepositional singular)
ду́хах (plural prepositional)
ду́ху (partitive singular)
духу́ (locative singular)
ду́ше (singular vocative)

→ Armenian: դուխ (dux)

→ Azerbaijani: dux

→ Gagauz: duh


foedus

la-adj

foedus (feminine foeda, neuter foedum, comparative foedior, superlative foedissimus, adverb foedē); first/second-declension adjective

foeda (feminine)
foedum (neuter)
foedior (comparative)
foedissimus (superlative)
foedē (adverb)
foedus (masculine nominative singular)
foeda (feminine nominative singular)
foedum (neuter nominative singular)
foedī (masculine nominative singular)
foedae (feminine nominative plural)
foeda (neuter nominative plural)
foedī (genitive masculine singular)
foedae (feminine genitive singular)
foedī (genitive neuter singular)
foedōrum (genitive masculine singular)
foedārum (feminine genitive plural)
foedōrum (genitive neuter plural)
foedō (dative masculine singular)
foedae (dative feminine singular)
foedō (dative neuter singular)
foedīs (dative feminine masculine neuter)
foedum (accusative masculine singular)
foedam (accusative feminine singular)
foedum (accusative neuter singular)
foedōs (accusative masculine singular)
foedās (accusative feminine plural)
foeda (accusative neuter plural)
foedō (ablative masculine singular)
foedā (ablative feminine singular)
foedō (ablative neuter singular)
foedīs (ablative feminine masculine neuter)
foede (masculine singular vocative)
foeda (feminine singular vocative)
foedum (neuter singular vocative)
foedī (masculine singular vocative)
foedae (feminine plural vocative)
foeda (neuter plural vocative)

Asturian: feu

Italian: fedo

Old Galician-Portuguese: feo

Galician: feo

Portuguese: feio

Spanish: feo

From Proto-Italic *foiðos (“afraid”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyh₂- (“to frighten; be afraid”).

der

(physically) filthy, foul, disgusting, loathsome, ugly, unseemly, detestable, abominable, horrible


savor

en-noun

savor (countable and uncountable, plural savors)

[B]y our Sences which conceiue al Colours, Sounds, Sents, Sauors, and Féelings; wée may ſee, heare, ſmell, taſt, and feele, that one ſelfſame workman made both the Sences, and the things that are ſubiect to the Sences.

1587, Philip of Mornay [i.e., Philippe de Mornay], “That there is a God, and that All Men Agree in the Godhead”, in Philip Sidney, Arthur Golding, transl., A Woorke Concerning the Trewnesse of the Christian Religion, […], London: […] [John Charlewood and] George Robinson for Thomas Cadman, […], →OCLC, page 7:

Matr[euis]. Gurney, I vvonder the king dies not, / Being in a vault vp to the knees in vvater, / To vvhich the channels of the caſtell runne, / […] / Gurn[ey]. And ſo do I, Matreuis: yeſternight / I opened but the doore to throvv him meate, / And I vvas almoſt ſtifeled vvith the ſauor.

1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act V], signature [L3], recto:

[W]hy is not my life a continual Joy? and the ſavor of Heaven perpetually upon my ſpirit?

1649, Richard Baxter, “What Affections Must be Acted, and by what Considerations and Obje[c]ts, and in what Order”, in The Saints Everlasting Rest: Or, A Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in Their Enjoyment of God in Glory. […], London: […] Rob[ert] White, for Thomas Underhil and Francis Tyton, […], →OCLC, part IV, section 9, paragraph 5, page 747:

[page 848] Taste, gives knowledge of the savors of material things. […] [page 849] The primary facts of knowledge, form, color, sound, weight, savor, odor, etc., can be obtained only by the direct action of material things upon the senses and cannot be taught from books.

1896 March 16, Charles R[ufus] Skinner, “[Exhibit No. 16: Teachers’ Training Classes.] Regulations for Teachers’ Training Classes.”, in Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, One Hundred and Twentieth Session, volume XVII, number 71, part II, Albany; New York, N.Y.: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., state printers, published 1897, →OCLC, section XIII (Syllabus), pages 848 and 849:


savor

en-verb

savor (third-person singular simple present savors, present participle savoring, simple past and past participle savored)

savors (present singular third-person)
savoring (participle present)
savored (participle past)
savored (past)
savor (infinitive)

So theſe olde huddles hauing ouercharged their gorges with fancie, accompte all honeſt recreation méere follly,^([sic]) and hauinge taken a ſurfet of delyght, ſéeme now to ſauor it with deſpight.

[1578], Iohn Lylly [i.e., John Lyly], “Euphues”, in Euphues. The Anatomy of Wyt. […], London: […] [Thomas East] for Gabriell Cawood, […], →OCLC, folio 7, recto:

BY novv, perhaps, thou ſauoreſts^([sic – meaning savorest]) ſome Godhead: yeat, is ods. / VVith paſte and preſent times doeſt dreame Pluralitie of Gods. / So did in deed the Monarchies, ſo Miſcreants novv not fevv: / But liſten here vvhat Gods they vvere, and learne them to eſchevv.

1602, William Warner, “The Thirteenth Booke. Chapter LXXVII.”, in Albions England. A Continued Historie of the Same Kingdome, from the Originals of the First Inhabitants thereof: […], 5th edition, London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant for George Potter, […], →OCLC, page 317:

VViſedome and goodnes, to the vild ſeeme vild, / Filths ſauor but themſelues, vvhat haue you done?

c. 1603–1606 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Nathaniel Butter, […], published 1608, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], signature H3, verso:

In ſuch a ſeaſon, vvhen the Idle Humerous vvorld muſt heare of nothing, that either ſauors of Antiquity, or may avvake it to ſeeke after more, then dull and ſlothfull ignorance may eaſily reach vnto: […]

1612, Michael Drayton, “To the Generall Reader”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC, signature A, recto:

Beauteous Penthea […] is novv ſo yoak'd / To a moſt barbarous thraldome, miſery, / Affliction, that [s]he ſauors not humanity.

c. 1625–1632 (date written), Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], The Broken Heart. A Tragedy. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Hugh Beeston, […], published 1633, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, signatures B, verso – B2, recto:

We will go to the hall, and partake of the food which I ween steameth up and savoreth well of marjoram and thyme.

1856, Catius Junior [pseudonym; Elizabeth R. Torrey], “Discourse Interrupted by Phelim, a Jester”, in Theognis: A Lamp in the Cavern of Evil, Boston, Mass.: Wentworth and Company, →OCLC, page 48:

Leaping from the tower of Beaurevoir into the ditch and preferring death to falling into the hands of the English, after the Voices had forbidden it.—This was pusillanimity, tending to desperation and suicide; and in saying that God had forgiven it, "thou savorest ill as to human free-will."

1888, Henry Charles Lea, A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages. […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, pages 368–369:

An explanation of life phenomena that savors of the laboratory and chemism repels me, and an explanation that savors of the theological point of view is equally distasteful to me. I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word "natural" to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.

1915 May, John Burroughs, “Preface”, in The Breath of Life, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], →OCLC, pages vi–vii:

[L]et me savor the sweetness of the name of Jesus as Thou [the Virgin Mary] savoredst it in thy heart, for it is just and meet, right and for our salvation, Queen of Heaven, thrice-blessed . . .

1959, Günter Grass, “No Wonder”, in Ralph Manheim, transl., The Tin Drum, New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books, →OCLC, page 138:

But thanks to the charmless chunk of schmancy condos now going up on Brooklyn’s Fourth Avenue (the Champs Élysées of auto parts stores), the rooftop sunsets we savored in summers past were, it turns out, our last.

2007 August 10, Lynn Harris, “On the Roof, a Weaning From Weeding”, in The New York Times:

This winter, there is a diverse buffet of movies for you to choose from. Most people order the widely franchised cheeseburger because of its biggie-sized portion, its reliably adequate flavor, and its bright, attractive packaging. Don’t get me wrong; on opening day, I’ll be sitting in the front row savoring the cheeseburgery deliciousness of “Quantum of Solace” and “Twilight.” But after the initial cinematic hunger subsides, the diner, like myself, who craves a heartier meal, will take a second trip through the buffet line and search for a meal with a more complex flavor and memorable substance.

2008 December, James Matney, “Raise your glasses in lactoast to independent films”, in The Vox (The Spokesman-Review), page 3, column 1:


lezzo

From Italian lezzare, apheresis of Italian olezzare (“to stink”), from Vulgar Latin *olidiāre, derived from Latin olidus (“emitting a smell”).


chypre

French Chypre (“Cyprus”), the name of a perfume created by François Coty in 1917.

Any of a family of fragrances built on a base consisting of bergamot, oakmoss and labdanum.


odoriferous

en-adj

odoriferous (comparative more odoriferous, superlative most odoriferous)

more odoriferous (comparative)
most odoriferous (superlative)

/ˌəʊdəˈɹɪfəɹəs/

/ˌəʊdəˈɹɪfɹəs/

/ˌoʊdəˈɹɪfəɹəs/

/ˌoʊdəˈɹɪfɹəs/

From Latin. By surface analysis, odor + -i- (“bearing, carrying”) + -ferous.

surf

Lewis the eleventh had a conceit everything did stinke about him, all the odoriferous perfumes they could get, would not ease him, but still hee^([sic]) smelled a filthy stinke.

1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], chapter 1, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 1, member 3:

True, the rich spices, the perfumed woods, the fragrant oils, which would feed the sacred fire of my funeral pyre, would save my mortal remains from that corruption which makes the disgust of death even worse than its dread. A few odoriferous ashes alone would be left for my urn.

1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Enchantress, page 20:

Moreover, as that of Heidelburgh was always replenished with the most excellent of the wines of the Rhenish valleys, so the tun of the whale contains by far the most precious of all his oily vintages; namely, the highly-prized spermaceti, in its absolutely pure, limpid, and odoriferous state.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 77, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

The males, and rarely the females, of many kinds of bats have glands and protrudable sacks situated in various parts; and it is believed that these are odoriferous.

1874, Charles Darwin, “Secondary Sexual Characters of Mammals—continued”, in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. […], 2nd edition, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, Part II (Sexual Selection), page 529:

Frankini disguised as Mr. Beefo: "Who wants to get out and smell that wet beef?"
Captain Man: "Me, I do, Me! Oh yes, so odoriferous!"

2018, Dan Schneider, Daniel Warren, “Magical Beefery Tour”, in The Adventures of Kid Danger, season 1, episode 7: