smelly

smelly

English

Etymology 1

smell +‎ -y

Pronunciation

• enPR: smĕlʹē, IPA^(key): /ˈsmɛli/

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• Rhymes: -ɛli

Adjective

smelly (comparative smellier, superlative smelliest)

1. Having a bad smell.

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

2. (figuratively) Having a quality that arouses suspicion.

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

3. (figuratively, computing, slang, in extreme programming) Having signs that suggest a design problem; having a code smell.

   That smelly code needs to be refactored.

Synonyms

• (having a bad smell): fetid, foul-smelling, malodorous, rank, stinky (slang), whiffy (slang); see also Thesaurus:malodorous
• (having a quality that arouses suspicion): dodgy (informal), doubtful, dubious, suspect, suspicious

Antonyms

• (having a bad smell): aromatic, fragrant, sweet-smelling
• (having a quality that arouses suspicion): above board, clean

Translations

having a bad smell

Arabic: مُنْتِن‎ (muntin) Armenian: please add this translation if you can Bashkir: һаҫыҡ (haθıq) Bulgarian: вонящ (bg) (vonjašt), зловонен (bg) (zlovonen) Catalan: pudent (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 臭 (zh) (chòu) Czech: smradlavý (cs) Danish: ildelugtende Esperanto: malbonodora, odoraĉa, fetora, haladza Estonian: please add this translation if you can Finnish: pahanhajuinen (fi), haiseva (fi) French: puant (fr) m, puante (fr) f, malodorant (fr) Galician: cheirento (gl) m, fedorento m Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: stinkend (de) Hebrew: מסריח‎ m (masríakh) Hungarian: büdös (hu) Italian: puzzolente (it) m or f, puzzoso m, fetente (it) m or f, fetido (it) m, maleodorante (it) m or f, graveolente m or f Japanese: 臭い (ja) (くさい, kusai) Khmer: ផ្ដុស (km) (pdoh) Korean: 냄새나는 (naemsae-naneun), 지독한 (jidok-han) Lao: please add this translation if you can Latin: odōrus Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Malay: busuk (ms) Maltese: jinten m Maori: haunga, piro, kenokeno, whakapiro Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Nepali: गनाउने (ganāune) Polish: śmierdzący (pl), cuchnący (pl), smrodliwy (pl) Portuguese: fedorento (pt) Romanian: mirositor (ro) Russian: воню́чий (ru) (vonjúčij), ду́рно па́хнущий (dúrno páxnuščij), злово́нный (ru) (zlovónnyj) Spanish: maloliente (es) Swedish: illaluktande (sv) Tagalog: mabaho Thai: เหม็น (th) (měn) Tibetan: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: thối (vi), thúi (vi), hôi (vi), khắm (vi) Volapük: lusmelik White Hmong: tsw phem Zhuang: please add this translation if you can

having a quality that arouses suspicion

Bulgarian: съмнителен (bg) (sǎmnitelen) Czech: podezřelý (cs) Finnish: epäilyttävä (fi) Italian: sospetto (it) m

computing: of inferior quality

Finnish: surkea (fi), onneton (fi)

Etymology 2

A comical pronunciation of the initials SMLE.

Noun

smelly (plural smellies)

1. (firearms, informal) a Short Magazine Lee Enfield rifle or one of its derivatives.

Anagrams

• mysell