Smeller vs Smaller - What's the difference?

smeller | smaller |

As a noun smeller

is someone or something that smells, that detects scent.

As an adjective smaller is

comparative of small.

smeller

English

Noun

(en noun)

Someone or something that smells, that detects scent

*{{quote-book, year=1898, author=H. Rider Haggard, title=King Solomon's Mines, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage="They could travel no further because of the high mountains which ring in the land, so say the old voices of our fathers that have descended to us the children, and so says Gagool, the wise woman, the smeller out of witches," and again he pointed to the snow-clad peaks. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1916, author=Swami Panchadasi, title=Clairvoyance and Occult Powers, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Wonderful as they are, they have their counterparts in the works of man, as for instance: the camera, or artificial eye; the phonograph, or, artificial ear; the delicate chemical apparatus, or artificial taster and smeller ; the telegraph, or artificial nerves. }}

*December 12 2009 , The Age - My space Steve Flamsteed

*:I'm much more of a smeller than a taster and I think that comes from being a chef.

(informal) the nose

*{{quote-book, year=1868, author=John Wilson, title=Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=But now, after the first close, in which we lose the fall--with straight right-handers we keep him at off-fighting--and that was a gush of blood from his smeller . }}

*{{quote-book, year=1872, author=James De Mille, title=The Dodge Club, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=After which Buttons landed four blows, one on each peeper, one on the smeller , and one on the mug. }}

(informal) something that has an unpleasant odor

*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=P. G. Wodehouse, title=Right Ho, Jeeves, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=A man's brain whizzes along for years exceeding the speed limit, and something suddenly goes wrong with the steering-gear and it skids and comes a smeller in the ditch. " }}

Synonyms

(something that has an unpleasant odor) *stink *stinker

smaller

English

Adjective

(head)

(small)

Anagrams

small

English

Adjective

(er)

Not large or big; insignificant; few in numbers or size.

* , chapter=5

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}

(figuratively) Young, as a child.

(writing, incomparable) Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written letters.

Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.

* Carlyle

A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man.

Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.

a small space of time

Synonyms

* (not large or big) little, microscopic, minuscule, minute, tiny; see also * little, wee (Scottish), young * (of written letters) lowercase, minuscule

Antonyms

* See also * (not large or big) capital, big, generous (said of an amount of something given), large * adult, grown-up, old * (of written letters) big, capital, majuscule, uppercase

Derived terms

* small arm * small arms * small beer * small calorie * small-cell lung cancer * small change * small claims court * smallclothes * smaller European elm bark beetle * small forward * small fry * smallgoods * smallholder * smallholding * small hours * small intestine * smallish * small-minded * smallmouth * smallmouth bass * smallmouth black bass * smallness * small potatoes * smallpox * smalls * small-scale * small screen * small stuff * smallsword * small talk * small-time * * small wonder * twice as small * twice as small as

Adverb

(er)

In a small fashion.

* (William Shakespeare), (w, A Midsummer Night's Dream) , Act I, scene 2, line 49:

That's all one: you shall play it in a mask, and / you may speak as small as you will.

In or into small pieces.

* 2009 , Ingrid Hoffman, CBS Early Morning for September 28, 2009 (transcription)

That's going to go in there. We've got some chives small chopped as well.

(obsolete) To a small extent.

* (rfdate) (William Shakespeare), Sonnets , "Lucrece", line 1273

It small avails my mood.

Derived terms

* writ small

Noun

(en noun)

Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back.

(UK, in the plural) Underclothes.

Derived terms

* small of the back

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To make little or less.

To become small; to dwindle.

* Thomas Hardy

And smalled till she was nought at all.

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