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fetid

or ڴDZ·

[ fet-id, fee-tid ]

adjective

  1. having an offensive odor; stinking.

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fetid

/ ˈfɛtɪd; ˈfiː- /

adjective

  1. having a stale nauseating smell, as of decay
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈڱپԱ, noun
  • ˈڱپ, adverb
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ڱi· adverb
  • ڱi·Ա ڱ·پi·ٲ noun
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of fetid1

1590–1600; < Latin ŧپܲ, equivalent to ŧ- (stem of ŧŧ to stink) + -idus -id 4
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of fetid1

C16: from Latin ŧپܲ , from ŧŧ to stink; related to ūܲ smoke
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Pawpaws' maroon flowers and fetid odor suggest that flies and beetles are the plant's primary pollinators.

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By the end of the movie Swayze’s "cooler" has stopped a JCPenney department store from ruining the town’s all-American tanginess, or whatever, and heads off to spruce up some other fetid swill hole.

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It is all too easy to find yourself submerged in fetid water, or sucked into a slurry of thick, black mud.

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The park also built a larger sun canopy for the giraffe and dredged out garbage and fetid water from a pool that took up much of the enclosure.

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And a good thing too, since in Paul’s own estimation, Barton boys are, with rare exception, a hopeless bunch of “philistines,” “reprobates,” “troglodytes,” “degenerates,” “hormonal vulgarians,” “fetid layabouts” and “snarling Visigoths.”

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