smellers

Noun

smeller (plural smellers)

1. Someone or something that smells, that detects scent.
   • "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.1898, H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines
2. (informal) Someone or something that gives off a smell.
3. (slang) The nose.
   • 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.1868, John Wilson, Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
4. (slang) An accident; cropper.
   • 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.1922, P. G. Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves