nidorous
adj/ˈnaɪd.ə.ɹəs/UK/ˈnaɪ.də.ɹəs/US
Etymology
From nidor (“the unpleasant smell of some cooked animal substances”) + -ous, or from Medieval Latin nidorosus.
- derived from nidorosus
Definitions
Emitting a strong, unpleasant odor, especially one like that of cooking fat or similar…
Emitting a strong, unpleasant odor, especially one like that of cooking fat or similar greasy substances.
- ‘Taste my breath—is it not fetid, foul, and nidorous?’
- That old man's niderous whispered breath had entered into MacMurrough's heart an insufflation of—of what, exactly?
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for nidorous. 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