| Back | olid /O-lid/ |
|---|---|
| Front | adjective Foul-smelling. [From Latin olere (to smell) which also gave us an opposite of today's word: redolent. Earliest documented use: 1680.] "Ducks' blood smells no less olid than pig's blood." - Merilyn Oniszczuk Jackson; A Sow of Violence; The Massachusetts Review (Amherst); Autumn 2004. |
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