smelly
/ˈsmɛli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.29 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A smelly person.
Example Sentences
- "She was hesitant to remove her shoes, as her socks were rather smelly."
- "The detective read the documents and thought, "Something sure is smelly about this case.""
- "That smelly code needs to be refactored."
- "And I can get home myself, thank you. Little smelly."
- "Or if you know any piglets with water pistols, maybe you could throw them a bottle of gargle and say, ‘Hoy you smellies, I bet you can’t squirt the little dangly thing up the dark end of my gob with this’."
- "However, according to [Joey] Owens, these anarchists are all a bunch of smellies, who run away “screaming” while forever being hit over the head with iron bars by victorious fascists."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *smel-der. Proto-West Germanic *smalljan Old English *smiellan Middle English smellen English smell English -y English smelly From smell + -y.