renifleur

[ ren-uh-flur ]

noun

, Psychiatry.

1. a person who is sexually aroused or gratified by odors.

Word History and Origins

Origin of renifleur¹

< French, equivalent to renifl ( er ) to sniff + -eur -eur

Example Sentences

In the New York Times review of “Renifleur’s Daughter,” author Marcelle Thiebaux called Mrs. Fraze “a limpid stylist” who “skillfully evokes the sensory awakenings of adolescence, while leaving unresolved her narrator’s ambivalence about eros and art.”

From Washington Post