Kareishu is a special smell that comes as old people age. Popular expressions such as: "Ossan kusai" or "Oyaji kusai" (smelly old man) refer to this smell.
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Smelly
//ˈsmɛli//
Synonyms for "smelly" (82 found)
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5 entriesTranslations
64 translations across 34 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- مُنْتِن adj (having a bad smell)
Bashkir
1 entries- һаҫыҡ adj (having a bad smell)
Bulgarian
3 entries- воня́щ adj (having a bad smell)
- зловонен adj (having a bad smell)
- съмнителен adj (having a quality that arouses suspicion)
Catalan
1 entries- pudent adj (having a bad smell)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 臭 adj (having a bad smell)
Czech
2 entries- podezřelý adj (having a quality that arouses suspicion)
- smradlavý adj (having a bad smell)
Danish
1 entries- ildelugtende adj (having a bad smell)
Esperanto
4 entries- fetora adj (having a bad smell)
- haladza adj (having a bad smell)
- malbonodora adj (having a bad smell)
- odoraĉa adj (having a bad smell)
Finnish
4 entries- epäilyttävä adj (having a quality that arouses suspicion)
- haiseva adj (having a bad smell)
- onneton adj (computing: of inferior quality)
- pahanhajuinen adj (having a bad smell)
French
3 entries- malodorant adj (having a bad smell)
- puant adj (having a bad smell)
- puante adj (having a bad smell)
Galician
2 entries- cheirento adj (having a bad smell)
- fedorento adj (having a bad smell)
German
1 entries- stinkend adj (having a bad smell)
Hebrew
1 entries- מסריח adj (having a bad smell)
Hungarian
1 entries- büdös adj (having a bad smell)
Italian
4 entries- fetente adj (having a bad smell)
- fetido adj (having a bad smell)
- graveolente adj (having a bad smell)
- maleodorante adj (having a bad smell)
Japanese
1 entries- 臭い adj (having a bad smell)
Khmer
1 entries- ផ្ដុស adj (having a bad smell)
Korean
2 entries- 냄새나는 adj (having a bad smell)
- 지독한 adj (having a bad smell)
Latin
1 entries- odōrus adj (having a bad smell)
Malay
1 entries- busuk adj (having a bad smell)
Maltese
1 entries- jinten adj (having a bad smell)
Māori
4 entries- haunga adj (having a bad smell)
- kenokeno adj (having a bad smell)
- piro adj (having a bad smell)
- whakapiro adj (having a bad smell)
Nepali
1 entries- गनाउने adj (having a bad smell)
Polish
3 entries- cuchnący adj (having a bad smell)
- smrodliwy adj (having a bad smell)
- śmierdzący adj (having a bad smell)
Portuguese
1 entries- fedorento adj (having a bad smell)
Romanian
1 entries- mirositor adj (having a bad smell)
Russian
3 entries- воню́чий adj (having a bad smell)
- ду́рно па́хнущий adj (having a bad smell)
- злово́нный adj (having a bad smell)
Spanish
1 entries- maloliente adj (having a bad smell)
Swedish
1 entries- illaluktande adj (having a bad smell)
Tagalog
1 entries- mabaho adj (having a bad smell)
Thai
1 entries- เหม็น adj (having a bad smell)
Vietnamese
4 entries- hôi adj (having a bad smell)
- khắm adj (having a bad smell)
- thúi adj (having a bad smell)
- thối adj (having a bad smell)
Volapük
1 entries- lusmelik adj (having a bad smell)
White Hmong
1 entries- tsw phem adj (having a bad smell)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
The conclusion reached by a study is "People who think their feet are smelly, have smelly feet; people who think they aren't, don't."
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The only window in our hotel room opens onto a smelly alley.
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"Sleeping in a dumpster, huh?" Al-Sayib asked. "That must have been a smelly experience."
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