Hypertext Webster Gateway: "fetid"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fetid \Fet"id\ (? or ?; 277), a. [L. fetidus, foetidus, fr.
fetere, foetere, to have an ill smell, to stink: cf. F.
f['e]tide.]
Having an offensive smell; stinking.
Most putrefactions . . . smell either fetid or moldy.
--Bacon.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
fetid
adj : offensively malodorous; "a putrid smell" [syn: {foetid}, {foul},
{foul-smelling}, {funky}, {noisome}, {smelly}, {putrid},
{stinking}]
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