Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Steaming; reeking; resembling the odor or flavor of cooked meat.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Resembling the smell or taste of roast meat, or of corrupt animal matter.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective literary Emitting a strong, unpleasant odor, especially one like that of cooking fat or similar greasy substances.

Etymologies

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From nidor ("the unpleasant smell of some cooked animal substances") + -ous, or from Medieval Latin nidorosus.

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Examples

  • Memo to Time's Publishers: If you wanna understand the attraction of the blogosphere, but you're too scared to wander down into the nidorous depths of the Internets, you don't even have to look at any blogs!

    Hullabaloo 2008

  • Three months into the Obama administration, the contours of a new and improved "liberal" police state reveal the same rotten, nidorous core as that of their predecessors.

    AfterDowningStreet.org - Bush-Cheney Trials in '09 2009

  • That old man’s nidorous whispered breath had entered into MacMurrough’s heart an insufflation of—of what, exactly?

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • That old man’s nidorous whispered breath had entered into MacMurrough’s heart an insufflation of—of what, exactly?

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • Taste my breath - is it not fetid, foul, and nidorous? "

    The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980

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  • Smelling like burning or decaying animal matter. (From Lucifeous Logolepsy)

    June 8, 2008