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Smellie

name

Etymology

From smell + -ie. Compare talkie.

  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 smellie — “smell + ie”

Definitions

  1. A surname from Scottish Gaelic.

    • Once Robert Smellie found her in a ruinous kirk on the Lang Muir, where of old the idolatrous rites of Rome were practiced.

  2. A film using smell-o-vision technology.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for Smellie. 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