smell

  • 51smell\ up — v informal To make a bad smell. A skunk smelled up our yard last night. Mr. Brodsky s cigar smelled up the living room …

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  • 52smell — sb. == odour. RG. 43. Body and Soul, 219 == scent (of a dog). O. and N. 820 v. n. Wright’s L. P. p. 88. Body and Soul, 22. The ON. smella, ‘crepere, tinnire,’ is probably the origin of our ‘smell;’ words relating to the senses are frequently… …

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  • 53smell up — give off a foul odor, make a bad smell …

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  • 54smell v — 1) How do you stop a fish from smelling? Cut off his nose. 2) Some people s noses and feet are build backwards: their feet smell and their noses run …

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  • 55smell — 1. noun the smell of the kitchen Syn: odour, aroma, fragrance, scent, perfume, bouquet, nose, stench, stink; Brit.; informal pong 2. verb 1) he smelled her perfume Syn …

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  • 56smell — kvapas statusas T sritis ekologija ir aplinkotyra apibrėžtis Medžiagos savybė sužadinti uoslės receptorius, sudirginti uoslę. atitikmenys: angl. odour; smell vok. Atem, m; Duft, m; Geruch, m rus. запах, m …

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  • 57smell — blogas kvapas statusas T sritis ekologija ir aplinkotyra apibrėžtis Gyvųjų organizmų ir skaidomos organinės medžiagos gaminamų cheminių junginių sukeltas nemalonus kvapas. atitikmenys: angl. malodor Am; odor; odour; smell vok. Geruch, m rus.… …

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  • 58smell —  v.  1. Be compared with (usu. in neg.). Also get a smell at Approach.  2. Appear to be deserving of suspicion …

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  • 59smell — [12] Smell is something of a mystery word. It is assumed to go back to an Old English *smiellan or *smyllan, but no such verb has been recorded, nor have any related forms in other languages been pin pointed for certain. One theory links it with… …

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  • 60Smell-O-Vision — was a system that released odors during the projection of a film so that the viewer could smell what was happening in the movie. The technique was created by Hans Laube and made its only appearance in the 1960 film Scent of Mystery , produced by… …

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