Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A strong, offensive odor. synonym: stench.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any strong offensive smell; stench.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A strong, offensive smell; stench; fetidness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An unpleasant
smell .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Harry and Giselle sank into the cat hair and fetor of his double bed.
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It appeared to be opaque glass, but it exuded the pungent fetor of magick.
Sparks Laura Bickle 2010
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It appeared to be opaque glass, but it exuded the pungent fetor of magick.
Sparks Laura Bickle 2010
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It appeared to be opaque glass, but it exuded the pungent fetor of magick.
Sparks Laura Bickle 2010
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It is a fetor that frequently accompanies the predictable libidinous lapses of pious \ "family values\" conservatives.
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It is a fetor that frequently accompanies the predictable libidinous lapses of pious "family values" conservatives.
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This is the raw, cutting odor of the jungle, the gash of the tropics, the fetor of equatorial darkness, the essence of everything Western civilization glosses over, dyes and tries to not think about.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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This is the raw, cutting odor of the jungle, the gash of the tropics, the fetor of equatorial darkness, the essence of everything Western civilization glosses over, dyes and tries to not think about.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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This is the raw, cutting odor of the jungle, the gash of the tropics, the fetor of equatorial darkness, the essence of everything Western civilization glosses over, dyes and tries to not think about.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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The lather and fetor of horse sweat, the whitened eyes.
The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006
chained_bear commented on the word fetor
"...went down into the unbreathable fetor, watched nervously by the slaver's hands, who held their whips in an uncertain, awkward fashion..."
--P. O'Brian, The Commodore, 190
March 17, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word fetor
"I had picked out a distinct stench of sickness amid the general fetor. Not only the ghost of long-dried vomit, but the sweet smell of purulent discharge and that indefinable musty, yeast-rising odor that seems to be simply the smell of illness itself."
—Diana Gabaldon, The Fiery Cross (NY: Bantam Dell, 2001), 419
January 20, 2010
milosrdenstvi commented on the word fetor
See also foetor.
January 21, 2010