Usually means: Emits strong, often unpleasant odor.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word smelly:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. smelly: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. smelly: Merriam-Webster
  3. smelly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. smelly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. smelly: Collins English Dictionary
  6. smelly: Vocabulary.com
  7. Smelly, smelly: Wordnik
  8. smelly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. smelly: Wiktionary
  10. smelly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. smelly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. smelly: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. smelly: Dictionary.com
  14. smelly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. smelly: Rhymezone
  16. smelly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. smelly: FreeDictionary.org
  18. smelly: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. smelly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. smelly: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. smelly: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SMELLY: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. smelly: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. smelly: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. smelly: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See smellier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Having a bad smell.
adjective:  (figuratively) Having a quality that arouses suspicion.
adjective:  (figuratively, computing, slang, in extreme programming) Having signs that suggest a design problem; having a code smell.
noun:  (rare) A smelly person.
noun:  (firearms, informal) a Short Magazine Lee Enfield rifle or one of its derivatives.

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