Smellie

English

Smellie

A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
- 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
  Once Robert Smellie found her in a ruinous kirk on the Lang Muir, where of old the idolatrous rites of Rome were practiced.
- 2010, Alexander McCall Smith, The Importance of Being Seven, Polygon, →ISBN, page 13:
  Poor Mhairi Smellie. Her first name, a Scots Gaelic name, was pronounced "vary", which sounded close to very. The name Smellie was common enough in Scotland, but to be called something which sounded like "very smelly" was a singular misfortune, and indicative, surely, of a lack of parental foresight.

单词	Smellie
释义	Smellie English Proper noun Smellie A surname from Scottish Gaelic. 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide Once Robert Smellie found her in a ruinous kirk on the Lang Muir, where of old the idolatrous rites of Rome were practiced. 2010, Alexander McCall Smith, The Importance of Being Seven, Polygon, →ISBN, page 13: Poor Mhairi Smellie. Her first name, a Scots Gaelic name, was pronounced "vary", which sounded close to very. The name Smellie was common enough in Scotland, but to be called something which sounded like "very smelly" was a singular misfortune, and indicative, surely, of a lack of parental foresight.
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