fetor

Roget category 401

3. Words relating to matter
› 3.3. Organic matter
›› 3.3.2. Sensation

#401. Fetor

noun

fetor^† — bad etc. adj.. smell, bad odor — stench, stink — foul odor, malodor — empyreuma^† — mustiness etc. adj. — rancidity — foulness etc. (uncleanness) 653.
stoat, polecat, skunk — assafoetida^† — fungus, garlic — stinkpot — fitchet^†, fitchew^†, fourmart^†, peccary.
acridity etc. 401.1.

verb

have a bad smell etc. n. — smell — stink, stink in the nostrils, stink like a polecat — smell strong etc. adj., smell offensively.

adjective

fetid — strong-smelling — high, bad, strong, fulsome, offensive, noisome, rank, rancid, reasty^†, tainted, musty, fusty, frouzy^† — olid^†, olidous^† — nidorous^† — smelling, stinking — putrid etc. 653 — suffocating, mephitic — empyreumatic^†.

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