| 单词 | smelly |
| 释义 | smelly (once / 13089 pages) adj Smelly things give off a bad odor. After her joyful swim in a swampy lake, your dog will probably be smelly. You could call smelly things stinky, putrid, or rank. Your brother's sweaty feet are smelly, and your neighbor's cabbage soup is smelly too. While things like flowers and homemade gingerbread are fragrant or aromatic, smelly things — like your neighborhood on garbage day — are just plain smelly. We know that smelly comes from smell, "odor, aroma, or stench," which followed the verb smell, "emit or perceive an odor," but the word's origin is unknown. WORD FAMILYsmelly: smellier, smelliest+/smell: smelled, smelling, smells, smelly/smelling: ill-smelling, smellings USAGE EXAMPLESIn Beauty and the Beast, “Belle” tells of a poor provincial town with smelly fish and stale baguettes. Time(Nov 03, 2016) The small, mole-like mammals have smelly saliva, which they use to paralyze and subdue their prey. Washington Times(Oct 27, 2016) Bony and smelly, menhaden have rarely been caught for food. New York Times(Oct 26, 2016) adj offensively malodorous Syn fetid, foetid, foul, foul-smelling, funky, ill-scented, noisome, stinking ill-smelling, malodorous, malodourous, stinky, unpleasant-smelling having an unpleasant smell |
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