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Word of the Day – Mephitic

By February 21, 2018Word of the Day

Mephitic (adj)

me-fit-ik

Foul smelling; noxious (especially of gas/vapours)

Early 17th century: from late Latin mephiticus, from mephitis ‘noxious exhalation’.

Example sentences

“We were left, choking in a fog of mephitic gas.”

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