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Definition of Foetid
1. Adjective. Offensively malodorous. "The kitchen smelled really funky"
Similar to: Ill-smelling, Malodorous, Malodourous, Stinky, Unpleasant-smelling
Derivative terms: Fetidness, Foulness, Noisomeness, Smell
Definition of Foetid
1. Adjective. (alternative spelling of fetid) ¹
2. Adjective. (hypercorrect) (nonstandard spelling of fetid) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Foetid
1. fetid [adj] - See also: fetid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foetid
Literary usage of Foetid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles of Midwifery: Including the Diseases of Women and Children by John Burns (1837)
"If a foetid discharge, succeed this disease, and the child be deaf, the ear is to be
... foetid discharge from the ears, generally, is accompanied with a ..."
2. The London Medical Gazette (1831)
"In the light knee-joint there was about two ounces of very foetid pus. ...
dark coloured foetid purulent matter was found within the joint. ..."
3. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"Such a locality is described by Shelley in the decay of the garden of the Sensitive
Plant:— horn in the intolerably foetid nature of the odour exhaled. ..."
4. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1902)
"quantities of foetid sputum at one time. I have had one case of bronchiectasis
under my care in which there was no sputum and only haemoptysis. ..."
5. Journal of a Tour Through the United States, and in Canada, Made During the by Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny (1843)
"Above this latter rock are horizontal strata of a dark, foetid, bituminous
limestone, distinctly divided into beds, from one to six inches thick, ..."
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