"nidorous" meaning in English

See nidorous in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈnaɪd.ə.ɹəs/ [UK], /ˈnaɪ.də.ɹəs/ [US] Audio: en-us-nidorous.ogg Forms: more nidorous [comparative], most nidorous [superlative]
Etymology: From nidor (“the unpleasant smell of some cooked animal substances”) + -ous, or from Medieval Latin nidorosus. Etymology templates: {{affix|en|nidor|-ous|t1=the unpleasant smell of some cooked animal substances}} nidor (“the unpleasant smell of some cooked animal substances”) + -ous, {{der|en|ML.|-}} Medieval Latin Head templates: {{en-adj}} nidorous (comparative more nidorous, superlative most nidorous)
  1. (literary) Emitting a strong, unpleasant odor, especially one like that of cooking fat or similar greasy substances. Tags: literary Categories (topical): Smell Translations (Emitting the odor or taste of roasted meat, especially rotten meat): палёный (paljónyj) (Russian)

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "nidor",
        "3": "-ous",
        "t1": "the unpleasant smell of some cooked animal substances"
      },
      "expansion": "nidor (“the unpleasant smell of some cooked animal substances”) + -ous",
      "name": "affix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ML.",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Medieval Latin",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From nidor (“the unpleasant smell of some cooked animal substances”) + -ous, or from Medieval Latin nidorosus.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more nidorous",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most nidorous",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "nidorous (comparative more nidorous, superlative most nidorous)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ous",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Russian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Smell",
          "orig": "en:Smell",
          "parents": [
            "Senses",
            "Perception",
            "Body",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "‘Taste my breath—is it not fetid, foul, and nidorous?’",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Jamie O'Neill, chapter 10, in At Swim, Two Boys, →ISBN, page 240:",
          "text": "That old man's niderous whispered breath had entered into MacMurrough's heart an insufflation of—of what, exactly?",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Emitting a strong, unpleasant odor, especially one like that of cooking fat or similar greasy substances."
      ],
      "id": "en-nidorous-en-adj-7QKUqg-P",
      "links": [
        [
          "unpleasant",
          "unpleasant"
        ],
        [
          "odor",
          "odor"
        ],
        [
          "fat",
          "fat"
        ],
        [
          "greasy",
          "greasy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literary) Emitting a strong, unpleasant odor, especially one like that of cooking fat or similar greasy substances."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "paljónyj",
          "sense": "Emitting the odor or taste of roasted meat, especially rotten meat",
          "word": "палёный"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈnaɪd.ə.ɹəs/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈnaɪ.də.ɹəs/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-nidorous.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/ba/En-us-nidorous.ogg/En-us-nidorous.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/En-us-nidorous.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nidorous"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "nidor",
        "3": "-ous",
        "t1": "the unpleasant smell of some cooked animal substances"
      },
      "expansion": "nidor (“the unpleasant smell of some cooked animal substances”) + -ous",
      "name": "affix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ML.",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Medieval Latin",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From nidor (“the unpleasant smell of some cooked animal substances”) + -ous, or from Medieval Latin nidorosus.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more nidorous",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most nidorous",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "nidorous (comparative more nidorous, superlative most nidorous)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English literary terms",
        "English terms derived from Medieval Latin",
        "English terms suffixed with -ous",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "en:Smell"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "‘Taste my breath—is it not fetid, foul, and nidorous?’",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Jamie O'Neill, chapter 10, in At Swim, Two Boys, →ISBN, page 240:",
          "text": "That old man's niderous whispered breath had entered into MacMurrough's heart an insufflation of—of what, exactly?",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Emitting a strong, unpleasant odor, especially one like that of cooking fat or similar greasy substances."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "unpleasant",
          "unpleasant"
        ],
        [
          "odor",
          "odor"
        ],
        [
          "fat",
          "fat"
        ],
        [
          "greasy",
          "greasy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literary) Emitting a strong, unpleasant odor, especially one like that of cooking fat or similar greasy substances."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈnaɪd.ə.ɹəs/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈnaɪ.də.ɹəs/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-nidorous.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/ba/En-us-nidorous.ogg/En-us-nidorous.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/En-us-nidorous.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "paljónyj",
      "sense": "Emitting the odor or taste of roasted meat, especially rotten meat",
      "word": "палёный"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nidorous"
}

Download raw JSONL data for nidorous meaning in English (2.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.