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Odour vs Stenchy - What's the difference?

odour | stenchy |

As a noun odour

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

As an adjective stenchy is

having a stench or foul odour, malodorous.

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

    stenchy

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having a stench or foul odour, malodorous.
  • *2003 , Suzann Ledbetter, A Lady Never Trifles with Thieves :
    • Soon, the incessant wind would dry the stenchy wallow to corduroyed cement.

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