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Odour vs Breathful - What's the difference?

odour | breathful |

As a noun odour

is any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume.

As an adjective breathful is

(obsolete) full of breath or odour; fragrant.

odour

English

Alternative forms

* odor (US)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume.
  • Something which produces a scent; incense, a perfume.
  • * 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke XXIV:
    • On the morow after the saboth, erly in the mornynge, they cam vnto the toumbe and brought the odoures whych they had prepared, and other wemen wyth them.

    Derived terms

    * body odour, body odor * deodorant * deodorise, deodorize * odoriferous * odourless

    breathful

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Full of breath or odour; fragrant.
    • (Webster 1913)