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SMELL-FEAST

Definition: SMELL-FEAST

SMELL-FEAST

Noun

1. A feast at which the guests are supposed to feed upon the odors only of the viands.

2. One who is apt to find and frequent good tables; a parasite; a sponger.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: SMELL-FEAST

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Servility

Sycophant, parasite; toad, toady, toad-eater; tufthunter; snob, flunky, flunkey, yes-man, lapdog, spaniel, lickspittle, smell-feast, Graeculus esuriens, hanger on, cavaliere servente, led captain, carpet knight; timeserver, fortune hunter, Vicar of Bray, Sir-Pertinax, Max Sycophant, pickthank; flatterer; doer of dirty work; ame damnee, tool; reptile; slave; (servant); courtier; beat, dead beat, doughface , heeler, homme de cour, sponger, sucker, tagtail, truckler.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translation: SMELL-FEAST

Language Translations for "SMELL-FEAST"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

æ°"味宴é¤. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

냄새 향연. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ell-feastsmay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SMELL-FEAST

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-l-l-m-s-s-t"

-2 letters: fameless, fellates, leafless, leaflets, mateless, mealless, meatless, selfsame, smallest, tameless.

-3 letters: falsest, fatless, fellate, fellest, females, leaflet, mallees, mallets, matless, measles, sallets, samlets, stellas, teasels.

-4 letters: allees, easels, elates, feases, feasts, fellas, female, festal, flames, fleams, fleets, lamest, leases, leasts, mallee, mallet, measle, metals, safest, sallet, samlet, selles, sesame, slates, sleets, smalls, smalts.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-f-l-l-m-s-s-t"
 

+4 letters: forestallments, telefacsimiles.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SMELL-FEAST


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 4D 45 4C 4C 2D 46 45 41 53 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01001101 01000101 01001100 01001100 00101101 01000110 01000101 01000001 01010011 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#77 &#69 &#76 &#76 &#45 &#70 &#69 &#65 &#83 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 004D 0045 004C 004C 002D 0046 0045 0041 0053 0054

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5347394646154039355354

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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