smell-o-meter

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smell-o-meter

1. (informal) That which registers the magnitude of odor.
   • 1993 May, Anne M. Turner, It Comes with the Territory: Handling Problem Situations in Libraries, page 10, McFarland & Company

     Perhaps the American Library Association should commission high tech wizards to develop a "smell-o-meter" which could standardize our judgments.

   • 1997 May 7, William Greene, misc.fitness.weights, Usenet

     Somebody needs to invent a "smell-o-meter" for gyms

   • 2003 November, Shawn Perich and Michael Furtman, Whitetail Hunting: Top-Notch Strategies for Hunting North America's Most Popular Big-Game Animal, page 13, Creative Publishing international

     In other words, the wolf scent that is old, though it registers on the deer’s “smell-o-meter,” causes a far different behavioral reaction than one that is fresh.