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smell-o-rama

noun

Etymology

From smell + -o-rama.

  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. suffixed as smell-o-rama — “smell + -o-rama”

Definitions

  1. A fictional name for technology that reproduces odor.

    • Scoffers will duly scoff as they did at sound, color, and wide screen. On the other hand, Smellorama did not catch on -- most movies manage to smell without it.
    • I inhale slowly not wanting to miss any ounce of nature’s freely provided version of smell-o-rama.
    • At the end, I had managed to transform my humiliation into a triumph of smell-o-rama weaponry. I wore my odors now as a badge, a rite of passage

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for smell-o-rama. 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