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.

  1. derived from nidorosus

Definitions

  1. 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.

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