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ˈsmell-feast
Also 6 smellefyeste, smelle-, smel-feast(e.
[f. smell v. (or n.) + feast n.]
1. One who scents out where feasting is to be had; one who comes uninvited to share in a feast; a parasite, a greedy sponger. Now arch. (very common c 1540–1700).
1519W. Horman Vulgaria 77 Smellefyestes, lyckedysshes, and franchars come vncalled. 1542Udall Erasm Apoph. 199 Parasites, wer called suche smellefeastes as would seeke to bee free geastes at riche mennes tables. 1602F. Herring Anat. 13 Our Smell-feast will be sure to haunt the Houses and Tables of Rich and great Men. 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. 21 Like so many smell-feasts they hankered near the Altars to enjoy the nidorous fumes. 1692L'Estrange Fables (1694) 33 The Fly is an intruder and a common Smell-feast that spunges upon other people's trenchers. 1708O. Dykes Refl. upon Eng. Prov. 163 The Flatteries of Sicophants and Smell-Feasts. 1869Browning Ring & Bk. viii. 39 The Smell-feasts rouse them at the hint There's cookery in a certain dwelling-place. 1884Dillwyn Jill II. ix. 135 That smell-feast of a Sue meanwhile had profited by the commotion.
b. attrib. Parasitic, sponging.
1566Drant Horace, Sat. i. vii. F ij, I am a smelfeaste belly⁓god, idle and full of slouthe. 1609Holland Amm. Marcell. 339 These smel-feast-parasites in comedies. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. iv. xx. 343 These smell-feast birds..came to feed on their carcases. 1772Nugent Hist. Friar Gerund II. 67 Some smell-feast friars of different communities.
2. ‘A feast at which the guests are supposed to feed upon the odors only of the viands’ (Webster, 1864). |