smelt
Meaning
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- Any small anadromous fish of the family Osmeridae, found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and in lakes in North America and northern part of Europe.
- (obsolete) A fool; a simpleton.
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈsmɛlt/
Etymology
From Middle English smelt, from Old English smelt, from Proto-Germanic *smeltaz.
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smell
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- A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance.
- The sense that detects odours.
- A conclusion or intuition that a situation is wrong, more complex than it seems, or otherwise inappropriate.
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