Definition of "foetor" []

• Variant of fetor. (noun)

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• "Nope, this is a day you wish he'd written a long, whiny letter to his aunts about those bastard Syrians next door, or maybe just spent the day inventing new spellings for "foetor" or patronizingly explaining Nietzsche to Frank Belknap Long."
• "Of greatest concern to me was a certain unmistakable foetor—that same dusty, sepulchral stench from my dream!"
• "That is before we even begin to contemplate how we might view the character of this individual, who permanently carries with him the foetor of the dung heap."