fetor
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of fetor
1475–1500; < Latin, equivalent to fēt- (stem of fētēre to stink) + -or -or 1; replacing earlier fetour < Middle French < Latin fētōr-, stem of fētor
Vocabulary lists containing fetor
Example Sentences
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By midmorning, when Morse helped load them into a wooden crate inside a light twin-engine propeller Beechcraft Baron, they were burnished with a sheen of oil and emitted a stomach-turning fetor.
From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2019
What was most unusual for a dream was that my nose was active, wrinkling in disgust at the fetor of rotten grass and the ichor of freshly overturned earth.
From Time Magazine Archive
But anyway, it's called fetor hepaticus, and it's a symptom of late-stage liver failure.
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
The aroma that fills, as it were, the nostrils of my memory is the sulfurous, protein-dissolving fetor of Nair.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Very different from that of Scotus is the language of Gregory Narienzen: "Exit in inferno frigus insuperabile: ignis inextinguibilis: vermis immortalis: fetor intollerabilis: tenebr� palpabiles: flagella cedencium: horrenda visio demonum: desperatio omnium bonorum."
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
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