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foresmell

noun
/ˈfɔːsmɛl/UK/fɔːˈsmɛl/

Etymology

From fore- + smell.

  1. inherited from smel
  2. derived from *smel-✻ — “to burn, smoke, smoulder; tar, pitch”
  3. inherited from *smallijan✻ — “to glow, burn, smoulder”
  4. inherited from *smyllan✻
  5. inherited from smellen
  6. prefixed as foresmell — “fore + smell”

Definitions

  1. A smell which precedes or comes before something.

  2. To smell in advance.

    • "I do not foresmell any immediate harm to thee from the harness, but as you might run a risk in using it, perhaps it will be safest for me to take it," said the Medium.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for foresmell. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA