单词 | malodour |
释义 | malodourn. A foul smell, a stench. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > [noun] > fetid smells stenchc893 reekeOE weffea1300 stink1382 fise14.. smeek?c1425 fist1440 fetorc1450 stew1487 moisture1542 putor1565 pouant1602 funk1606 graveolence1623 hogo1654 whiff1668 fogo1794 stythe1823 malodour1825 pen and ink1859 body scent1875 pong1900 niffa1903 hum1906 taint1927 honk1953 bowf1985 stank1996 1825 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 31 380 In vain did the fair traveller hope to escape from that omnipresent mal-odour. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. v. ii. 544 ‘Putrid fermentation’, ending, after the endurance of much malodour, in mere zero to you and to every one. 1985 Times 18 Dec. 11/3 The whiff of malodour in public life just now is not directly attributable to the government. 1988 J. Herbert Haunted xxix. 207 Ash limped outside,..cleansing his lungs of Edbrook's malodour. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1825 |
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