fetor
or foe·tor
a strong, offensive smell; stench.
Origin of fetor
1Words Nearby fetor
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How to use fetor in a sentence
He was blinded by light and deafened by sound and his nostrils were filled with the nauseating fetor of jungle and decay.
Operation Terror | William Fitzgerald JenkinsLiquor gurgled down; the smell of whisky added its fetor to the stench of oil, bilge, sweat and blood.
Cursed | George Allan EnglandIn vain it was to rake for Ambergriese in the paunch of this Leviathan, insufferable fetor denying not inquiry.
Moby Dick; or The Whale | Herman MelvilleDalgard's less sensitive nostrils picked up a new scent, the not-to-be-missed fetor of damp underground ways where water stood.
Star Born | Andre NortonLemna minor where the crusts and the muco-purulent discharge are very abundant with fetor (in rhinitis atrophics).
British Dictionary definitions for fetor
foetor
/ (ˈfiːtə, -tɔː) /
an offensive stale or putrid odour; stench
Origin of fetor
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