TO SMELL

Definition: SMELL

SMELL

Noun

1. The sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form; "she loved the smell of roses".

2. Any property detected by the olfactory system.

3. The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason".

4. The faculty of smell.

5. The act of perceiving the odor of something.

Verb

1. Inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense.

2. Emit an odor; "The soup smells good".

3. Smell bad; "He rarely washes, and he smells".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Crosswords: TO SMELL

Seeing a man die isn't enough for you, you gotta be close enough to smell his nuts cook? (The Green Mile; writing credit: Frank Darabont)

Just because I look like a man doesn't mean I have to smell like one. (Mulan; writing credit: Robert D. San Souci; Rita Hsiao)

The house begins to smell like coyote urine. (Werewolf; writing credit: Brad Hornbacher; Tony Zarindast)

Frankly, you're beginning to smell and for a stud in New York, that's a handicap. (Midnight Cowboy; writing credit: Waldo Salt)

Needs to smell her, touch her hair (I Will Wait; performing artist: Hootie & The Blowfish)

Take Time to Smell the Flowers (1977)

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Books

• I Love to Smell My Daddy's Socks: Gross & Putrid Poetry for Kids (reference)

  (more book examples)

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You don't have to be Vietnamese to smell a rat Come crown King Dick!--Jan. 20 / / Youth International Party. Credit: Library of Congress.

You don't have to be Vietnamese to smell a rat : come crown King Dick!. Credit: Library of Congress.

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For each dog sniffed daintily and then stalked to a cotton plant on stiff legs, raised a hind foot ceremoniously and wetted, then went back to smell.

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Expressions using "TO SMELL": take time to smell the roses ♦ To smell a rat ♦ To smell of the lamp ♦ To smell of the shop ♦ To smell out. Additional references.

Aymara

muct'aña. (various references)

Blackfoot

ssímihkaa. (various references)

Chinese 

臭 (sense of smell, smell bad, smelly, stench, stink). (various references)

Danish

at lugte. (various references)

Dutch

ruiken (give off an odour, reek, smell). (various references)

Finnish

haistaminen, haistaa (scent, smell). (various references)

French

sentir, odorer, adorer. (various references)

German

riechen (give off an odour, have a sense of smell, reek, savor, savour, smell, sniff). (various references)

Greek 

οσφραίνομαι (scent, smell, sniff). (various references)

Hungarian

vmilyen szagú (smelt, to stink of sg), szagol (smell, smelt, to nose, to scent), szaga van (smelt), megszimatol (get wind of, scent, smelt, to sniff, to wind), megszagol (smelt, to nose), érzi a szagát (smelt). (various references)

Italian

odorare (perfume, scent, smell). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

臭う (to be bright, to be fragrant, to glow, to stink), 匂う (to be bright, to be fragrant, to glow, to stink), 感づく (to apprehend, to get an inkling), 感付く (to apprehend, to get an inkling), 嗅ぐ (to sniff). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

におう (the two guardian Deva kings, to be bright, to be fragrant, to glow, to stink), か�"づく (to apprehend, to get an inkling, to scent, to sense, to suspect), かぐ (furniture, to sniff). (various references)

Maori

hongi-a. (various references)

Mohawk

-tehsw� tha'. (various references)

Pig Latin

otay ellsmay

Portuguese

sentir (experience, feel, receive, regret, sense, take, to feel). (various references)

Romansch

savurar. (various references)

Romany

soong� v. (various references)

Sepedi

nkga. (various references)

Sicilian

ciarari. (various references)

Spanish

oler (give off an odour, nose, pry, reek, savor, savour, scent, smack, smell, smell out, sniff, sniff out, whiff). (various references)

Swazi

kú-nuka. (various references)

fragro. (various references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: molest, motels.

-2 letters: losel, mells, melts, moles, molls, molts, moste, motel, motes, smell, smelt, smolt, smote, stole, tells, telos, toles, tolls, tomes.

-3 letters: ells, elms, lest, lets, lose, lost, lots, mell, mels, melt, mole, moll, mols, molt, most, mote, mots, oles, sell, sloe, slot, sole, some, stem, tell, tels, toes, tole, toll, tome.

+1 letter: melilots.

+2 letters: martellos, mellowest, millstone, rostellum, steamroll, tomalleys.

+3 letters: allotments, ameloblast, collimates, emollients, guillemots, mellotrons, metalloids, millstones, molalities, myeloblast, postbellum, rostellums, steamrolls, toilsomely.

+4 letters: allometries, ameloblasts, enrollments, immortelles, lightsomely, loathsomely, megaloblast, melanoblast, mesothelial, misallocate, mortadellas, myeloblasts, semitonally, somnolently, steamrolled, steamroller, tremulously.

+5 letters: balletomanes, blithesomely, bottomlessly, collectivism, comptrollers, cosmetically, domestically, fathomlessly, isothermally, megaloblasts, melanoblasts, meticulously, misallocated, misallocates, motionlessly, motivelessly, mournfullest, multiplexors, myeloblastic, osmolalities, rambouillets, smallclothes, steamrollers, steamrolling.