Etymology
Origin of smeller
Example Sentences
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A flight attendant might be able to move you to a different seat or, if the flight hasn’t left yet, remove the offending smeller.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 25, 2024
A thousand people could give a thousand different answers since smell doesn’t lie in a scent’s source, but in the intensely personal archive of experience and sensation the smeller brings to the act.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2021
A hard worker, spiffy dresser and preternaturally talented smeller, Mr. Powell was also the ur-New Yorker, living paycheck to paycheck and doing what he loved in his off hours.
From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2021
Each choice leads to another, until the smeller dead-ends at a base note: amber, oakmoss, musk.
From The New Yorker • May 27, 2019
Well, smart doggie, put on your sharpest smeller an’ help to track him whichever way he went.
From A Sunny Little Lass by Raymond, Evelyn
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