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DEFINITION: n., A compulsive need to sniff everything and anything you pick up, even things that typically do not have distinctive odors. v., To habitually sniff everything within your grasp -- just to make sure it's fresh.
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Snortomatic
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: snor-toh-ma-tik
Sentence: following his dog around with the pooper scooper forced him to resist his snortomatic reflex
Etymology: snort, automatic
Snexpertiff
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: snek-spurt-iff
Sentence: He snexpertiffed anything in sight like a german shepherd police dog looking for contraband.
Etymology: sniff + expert
Sniffixation
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: snif-fix-a-shun
Sentence: Jim had such a sniffixation about freshness that Rita refused to go with him to buy groceries anymore. Anyone who watched him smell, poke, squeeze and taste the fruits and vegetables was too grossed out to buy them when he got done with them. He sniffed the meats to make sure they weren't spoiled, the cheeses to see if they were still good and the fish to make sure it hadn't gone belly up. But when he began to sniff the cat food she had enough.
Etymology: sniff + fixation:an obsessive preoccupation
Inscentiable
Created by: xirtam
Pronunciation: in-sent-shuh-buhl,
Sentence: They say that smells can trigger long lost memories. Well, Bills desire to remember something must have been inscentiable; he would take a sniff of anything he could pick up.
Etymology: Mash-up of insatiable and scent. Insatiable: incapable of being satisfied or appeased. Scent: a distinctive odor.
Inscentivised
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: in sent iv eye zd
Sentence: his dog was inscentivised around anyone who asspirated
Etymology: incentivise scent
Idensniffication
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: eye den sniff ick ay shun
Sentence: His method of idensniffication, combined with a certain shiftiness around the full moon, led to a certain disquiet among the more delicate inhabitants of the apartment block.
Etymology: identification, sniff
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COMMENTS:
very funny! - Jabberwocky, 2007-11-29: 14:21:00
Perhaps he's moonlighting as a "sniffer" dog! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-29: 16:32:00
Great word! - Mustang, 2007-11-29: 21:49:00
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Nostrail
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: nos/trayl
Sentence: He was famous for his picky nostrail. He could pick up a scent a mile away.
Etymology: nostril + trail
Nanal
Created by: bzav1
Pronunciation: nay - nal
Sentence: He was so incredibly nanal that he refused to use my smellphone and he would keep his distench whenever I ate old cheese.
Etymology: nanal - nasal + anal, smellphone - a cellphone that needs a good wiping with a sanitizer, distench - keeping space between oneself and offensive odors (distance + stench)
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COMMENTS:
Great verbotomy! He was working both ends against the middle. :-) - Mustang, 2007-11-29: 07:58:00
Short and sweet (or stinky). Nice! - purpleartichokes, 2007-11-29: 19:11:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by kabloozie. Thank you kabloozie ~ James
Remistram also submitted definition about compulsive sniffing, so I have added her name to the credits for this definition. Thank you again to kabloozie and remistram. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by kabloozie. Thank you kabloozie. ~ James