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smeller

[ smel-er ]

noun

  1. a person who smells.
  2. a person who tests by smelling.
  3. Informal. the nose.
  4. a tactile hair or process, as one of the whiskers of a cat; a feeler.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of smeller1

First recorded in 1510–20; smell + -er 1
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A flight attendant might be able to move you to a different seat or, if the flight hasn’t left yet, remove the offending smeller.

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A thousand people could give a thousand different answers since smell doesn’t lie in a scent’s source, but in the intensely personal archive of experience and sensation the smeller brings to the act.

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A hard worker, spiffy dresser and preternaturally talented smeller, Mr. Powell was also the ur-New Yorker, living paycheck to paycheck and doing what he loved in his off hours.

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Maybe these candles do basically just smell nice and the descriptions are mainly a joke, or the sort of extreme inference that a professional smeller might make about aspects of a relatively normal perfume, like wine tasters do when they talk about burnt tyres or earth or berries when the word they’re looking for is “wineâ€.

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She pictures the "archetypical good smeller" as a "bon vivant - you know, people who love to eat and drink and who love to be with people, and they're gregarious".

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