foresmell

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈfɔːsmɛl/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A smell which precedes or comes before something.
    — His father, a man of sixty, shorter than Hugh and also pudgier, had aged unappetizingly during his recent widowhood; his things let off a characteristic foresmell, faint but unmistakable, and he grunted and sighed in his sleep, dreaming of large unwieldy blocks of blackness [...].
动词 v.
  1. To smell in advance. transitive
    — "I do not foresmell any immediate harm to thee from the harness, but as you might run a risk in using it, perhaps it will be safest for me to take it," said the Medium.

词形变化

foresmells plural foresmells present,singular,third-person foresmelling participle,present foresmelt participle,past foresmelt past

词源

词源 1
From fore- + smell.
词源 2
From fore- + smell.
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