See smelly on Wiktionary
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"3": "y"
},
"expansion": "smell + -y",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From smell + -y.",
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{
"form": "smellies",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
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"name": "en-noun"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with rare senses"
],
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{
"ref": "1965, Richard Dowling, chapter 31, in All the Beautiful People, London: Arthur Barker Limited […], page 228:",
"text": "And I can get home myself, thank you. Little smelly.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2000, Ian Whybrow, Little Wolf’s Postbag, London: Collins, →ISBN, page 45:",
"text": "Or if you know any piglets with water pistols, maybe you could throw them a bottle of gargle and say, ‘Hoy you smellies, I bet you can’t squirt the little dangly thing up the dark end of my gob with this’.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2009 June, “Anti-Fascism in Liverpool: Action! Race War to Door Wars [Review]”, in KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library, number 58-9, London: Kate Sharpley Library, →ISSN, page 7, column 1:",
"text": "However, according to [Joey] Owens, these anarchists are all a bunch of smellies, who run away “screaming” while forever being hit over the head with iron bars by victorious fascists.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "[2012, Joe O’Neill, Wrath of the Caid (The Red Hand Adventures; II), [Hood River, Ore.]: Black Ship Publishing, →ISBN, page 92:",
"text": "Both of them had been called “little smellies,” because Hillie insisted their breath reeked of garlic and fish.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2014, Shweta Taneja, Cult of Chaos: An Anantya Tantrist Mystery, Noida, Uttar Pradesh: HarperCollins Publishers India, →ISBN, page 212:",
"text": "I have two little smellies to think of too. Family is big and cost of living in this city is increasing by the day.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A smelly person."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare) A smelly person."
],
"tags": [
"rare"
]
}
],
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{
"enpr": "smĕlʹē"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈsmɛli/"
},
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/En-au-smelly.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛli"
}
],
"word": "smelly"
}
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"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"en:Smell"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_text": "A comical pronunciation of the initials SMLE.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "smellies",
"tags": [
"plural"
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}
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"pos": "noun",
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{
"categories": [
"English informal terms",
"en:Firearms"
],
"glosses": [
"a Short Magazine Lee Enfield rifle or one of its derivatives."
],
"links": [
[
"firearm",
"firearm"
]
],
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"(firearms, informal) a Short Magazine Lee Enfield rifle or one of its derivatives."
],
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],
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"engineering",
"firearms",
"government",
"military",
"natural-sciences",
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"politics",
"tools",
"war",
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]
}
],
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}
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