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smeller

American  
[smel-er] / ˈsmɛl ər /

noun

  1. a person who smells.

  2. a person who tests by smelling.

  3. Informal. the nose.

  4. a tactile hair or process, as one of the whiskers of a cat; a feeler.


Etymology

Origin of smeller

First recorded in 1510–20; smell + -er 1

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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

I got in with a smeller afore he came right down with his slogger.

From Robert Falconer by MacDonald, George

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