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  • adjective Not having been smelled.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ smelt

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Examples

  • He trotted forward and, lifting again his hindleg, pissed quick short at an unsmelt rock.

    Ulysses 2003

  • He trotted forward and, lifting again his hindleg, pissed quick short at an unsmelt rock.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • The want of draining, and the vapours that stagnate over the turbid waters of the _ruisseaux_ that intersect the streets at Paris, add to the humidity of the atmosphere; while the sewers in London convey away unseen and unfelt, if not always unsmelt, the rain which purifies, while it deluges, our streets.

    The Idler in France Marguerite Blessington 1819

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