English
Etymology 1
smell + -y
Pronunciation
Adjective
smelly (comparative smellier, superlative smelliest)
- Having a bad smell.
- She was hesitant to remove her shoes, as her socks were rather smelly.
- (figuratively) Having a quality that arouses suspicion.
- The detective read the documents and thought, "Something sure is smelly about this case."
- (figuratively, computing, slang, in extreme programming) Having signs that suggest a design problem; having a code smell.
- That smelly code needs to be refactored.
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Translations
having a bad smell
- Arabic: مُنْتِن (muntin)
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Bashkir: һаҫыҡ (haśıq)
- Catalan: pudent
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 臭 (zh) (chòu)
- Danish: ildelugtende
- Esperanto: malbonodora, odoraĉa, fetora, haladza
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: pahanhajuinen (fi), haiseva (fi)
- French: puant (fr) m, puante (fr) f, malodorant (fr)
- Galician: cheirento (gl) m, fedorento m
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: stinkend (de)
- Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: büdös (hu)
- Italian: puzzolente (it) m or f, puzzoso m, fetente (it) m or f, fetido (it) m, maleodorante (it) m or f, graveolente m or f
- Japanese: 臭い (ja) (くさい, kusai)
- Khmer: ផ្ដុស (km) (pdoh)
- Korean: please add this translation if you can
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- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Malay: busuk
- Maltese: jinten m
- Maori: haunga, piro, kenokeno, whakapiro
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Nepali: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: please add this translation if you can
- Portuguese: fedorento (pt)
- Romanian: mirositor (ro)
- Russian: воню́чий (ru) (vonjúčij), ду́рно па́хнущий (dúrno páxnuščij), злово́нный (ru) (zlovónnyj)
- Spanish: maloliente (es)
- Swedish: illaluktande (sv)
- Tagalog: mabaho
- Thai: เหม็น (th) (měn)
- Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
- Vietnamese: thối (vi), thúi (vi), hôi (vi), khắm (vi)
- Volapük: lusmelik
- White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
- Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
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having a quality that arouses suspicion
computing: of inferior quality
Etymology 2
A comical pronunciation of the initials SMLE.
Noun
smelly (plural smellies)
- (firearms, informal) a Short Magazine Lee Enfield rifle or one of its derivatives.
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