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smeller out

smeller out noun: one who smells out something; one adept at smelling out.

Noun

smeller out (plural smellers out)

  1. One who smells out something; one adept at smelling out.
    • Chalba proved to be a great ‘smeller out’ of yams, an expert in the finding of any edible root or bulb or fruit or vegetable, or of wildfowl eggs.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 70

Forms of smeller out

pluralsmellers out

Questions about smeller out

What does smeller out mean?
Smeller out means one who smells out something; one adept at smelling out.
What part of speech is smeller out?
Smeller out is a noun.
What is the plural of smeller out?
The plural of smeller out is smellers out.

Words near smeller out in the dictionary

  1. smelled the barn
  2. smelled the coffee
  3. smelled up
  4. smelled what someone was stepping in
  5. smeller
  6. smeller out
  7. smellers
  8. smellers out
  9. smellest
  10. smelleth
  11. smellevision

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