a. [f. SMELL sb. + -Y.] Emitting a bad smell or smells; stinking.
1862. H. Marryat, Year in Sweden, II. 398. Down the centre runs a straight canal awful smelly.
1863. Kingsley, Water-bab., 192. They cant abide anything smelly or foul.
1879. Hare, Story Life (1900), V. xx. 219. It was a crowded, rolling, smelly steamer.