nidorous
adjUK /ˈnaɪd.ə.ɹəs/ · US /ˈnaɪ.də.ɹəs/
Etymology From nidor (“the unpleasant smell of some cooked animal substances”) + -ous, or from Medieval Latin nidorosus.
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Literary Emitting a strong, unpleasant odor, especially one like that of cooking fat or similar greasy substances.
- ‘Taste my breath—is it not fetid, foul, and nidorous?’1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XVIII, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 163:
- That old man's niderous whispered breath had entered into MacMurrough's heart an insufflation of—of what, exactly?2002, Jamie O'Neill, chapter 10, in At Swim, Two Boys, →ISBN, page 240:
- Derived terms
- nidorosity