Dictionary

nidor en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈnʌɪdə/ (UK)
• /ˈnʌɪdɔː/ (UK)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈnaɪdəɹ/ (US)

Etymology

From Latin nidor.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The smell of burning animals, especially of burning animal fat.
   • the material Demons do strangely gluttonize upon the Nidours and Bloud of Sacrifices 1681, Henry Hallywell, Melampronoea:
   • The First-fruits were a common Oblation to their Deities; but the chief Part of their Worship consisted in sacrificiing Animals : And this they did out of a real Persuasion, that their Gods were pleased with their Blood, and were nourished with the Smoke, and Nidor of them; and therefore the more costly, they thought them the more acceptable, for which Reason, they stuck not sometimes to regale them with human Sacrifices. 1743, Thomas Stackhouse, A Compleat Body of Speculative and Practical Divinity, edition 3 (London), page 524
   • Elsewhere to blood, smoke, and nidor, he opposes purity of thought, sincerity of affection, […] 1896, Daniel Waterland, A Review of the Doctrine of the Eucharist, page 623:
   • The smell, at some times of year sensible for Miles, of Sheep, and wool-fat, and that queasy Nidor of Lambs baking in ovens meant for bread […] 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon:
2. (countable, nonstandard, uncountable) Any smell.
   • The long, yellow face was framed in side whiskers; there hung about him the nidor of stale cigar smoke. 2008, Edgar Wallace, Devil Man, page 9:
   • For her part Vicki smells little, not even the nidor of antifreeze at the stock car races at Lake Doucette. 2007, Samuel F. Pickering, Autumn spring, page 28:

Forms

Deriveds

nidorous