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nidorous

PRONUNCIATION:

(NY-duh-ruhs)

MEANING:

adjective: Smelling strongly of cooking, burning, or decaying animal matter.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin nidor (strong smell from cooking or burning), unrelated to odor. Earliest documented use: 1626.

USAGE:

“A nidorous stench hangs in the air and our hands or our handkerchiefs cocktail napkins cover our noses.”
R.A. Allen; Monday Burning; Literary Review (Madison, New Jersey); Summer 2010.
[The short story Monday Burning actually features a patron in a bar who spontaneously combusts.]

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means -- except by getting off his back. -Leo Tolstoy, novelist and philosopher (9 Sep 1828-1910)

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