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Smelling Salts

Definition: Smelling Salts

Smelling Salts

Noun

1. A pungent preparation of ammonium carbonate and perfume; sniffed as a stimulant to relieve faintness.

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Synonyms within Context: Smelling Salts

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Pungency

Mustard, cayenne, caviare; seasoning. (condiment); niter, saltpeter, brine (saltiness) a; carbonate of ammonia; sal ammoniac, sal volatile, smelling salts; hartshorn (acridity) a.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Smelling Salts

English words defined with "smelling salts": ammonium carbonatesmelling bottle. (references)

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Modern Usage: Smelling Salts

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Better have smelling salts handy and a nip of brandy. (Witness for the Prosecution; writing credit: Agatha Christie; Larry Marcus)

I never faint because I am not sure that I will fall gracefully and I never use smelling salts because they puff up the eyes. (Witness for the Prosecution; writing credit: Agatha Christie; Larry Marcus)

Smell the smelling salts! (The Cable Guy; writing credit: Lou Holtz Jr.)

Movie/TV Titles

The Adventure of the Smelling Salts (1912)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Smelling Salts

DomainTitle

Music

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Modern Translation: Smelling Salts

Language Translations for "smelling salts"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

krië amoniaku. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏نشادر (ammonia, ammonium), ‏أملاح الشم. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

амонячна сол за вдишване. (various references)

   

Czech

  

èichací sùl. (various references)

   

French

  

sels. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αμμωνία χρησιμοποιουμένη εισ λιποθυμίασ. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

repülõsó. (various references)

   

Italian

  

sali (salts). (various references)

   

Manx

  

sollan soar. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ellingsmay altssay

   

Portuguese

  

sais para cheirar. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

нюхательная соль (hartshorn, sal volatile, salts, smelling-salts). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

mirišljave soli. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sales aromáticas. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

luktsalt (sal volatile, salvolatile). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ยาแก้เวียนศีรษะ. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ruh (astral body, aura, esprit, essence, essential oil, genius, ghost, heartbeat, inner man, manes, pith, pith and marrow, psyche, shade, soul, spirit), amonyak ruhu. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Smelling Salts

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-l-l-l-m-n-s-s-s-t"

-3 letters: tasselling.

-4 letters: allelisms, glassiest, glassines, legalisms, legalists, ligaments, melanists, metalling, misagents, saltiness, slangiest, smallness, smaltines, staginess, stainless, stealings, stillness, stingless, tasseling.

-5 letters: ailments, ainsells, aliments, allelism, eastings, elastins, gainless, galleins, gaminess, gassiest, gastness, gelatins, gellants, genitals, giantess, gillnets, glassies, glassine, glassmen, glistens, illegals, installs, lastings, leasings, legalism, legalist, ligament, lintless, listless, mailless, mangiest.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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