a. [f. SMELL sb. + -Y.] Emitting a bad smell or smells; stinking.

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1862.  H. Marryat, Year in Sweden, II. 398. Down the centre runs a straight canal ‘awful smelly.’

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1863.  Kingsley, Water-bab., 192. They can’t abide anything smelly or foul.

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1879.  Hare, Story Life (1900), V. xx. 219. It was a crowded, rolling, smelly steamer.

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