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smelly

adjectifnomnomattesté dans les dialogues

  • //ˈsmɛli//

Having a bad smell.

adjectif

  1. 1

    Having a bad smell.

    She was hesitant to remove her shoes, as her socks were rather smelly.

  2. 2

    figuréHaving a quality that arouses suspicion.

    The detective read the documents and thought, "Something sure is smelly about this case."

  3. 3

    figuréHaving signs that suggest a design problem; having a code smell.

    That smelly code needs to be refactored.

Étymologie

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *smel-der. Proto-West Germanic *smalljan Old English *smiellan Middle English smellen English smell English -y English smelly From smell + -y.

nom

  1. 1

    rareA smelly person.

    And I can get home myself, thank you. Little smelly.

    Or if you know any piglets with water pistols, maybe you could throw them a bottle of gargle and say, ‘Hoy you smellies, I bet you can’t squirt the little dangly thing up the dark end of my gob with this’.

    However, according to [Joey] Owens, these anarchists are all a bunch of smellies, who run away “screaming” while forever being hit over the head with iron bars by victorious fascists.

    Both of them had been called “little smellies,” because Hillie insisted their breath reeked of garlic and fish.

nom

  1. 1

    familiera Short Magazine Lee Enfield rifle or one of its derivatives.

Étymologie

A comical pronunciation of the initials SMLE.

Formes

pluriel
smellies
comparatif
smellier
superlatif
smelliest
Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

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