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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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Word History and Origins

Origin of smeller1

First recorded in 1510–20; smell + -er 1
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Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.

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 “wine”.

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".

From BBC

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