Definition of "smell-feast" [smell•-feast]

• One who is apt to find and frequent good tables; a parasite; a sponger. (noun)

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• "Mr Portman Seymour, who was a jovial companion, and indulged his appetites, but otherwise a good man; Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough's brother, a man of courage, but a lover of wine; Mr Pereira, a Jew and smell-feast, and other hard drinkers, declared, that the want of French wine was not to be endured, and that they could hardly bear up under so great a calamity."
• "The Woman Hater, said to be Fletcher's earliest play, has a character of rare comic, or at least farcical virtue in the smell-feast Lazarillo with his Odyssey in chase of the Umbrana's head (a delicacy which is perpetually escaping him); and The Nice Valour contains, in Chamont and his brother, the most successful attempts of the English stage at the delineation of the point of honour gone mad."
• "To the gamblers this will be a trouvaille, but it will be a hard lick on the smell-feast."