foresmell

foresmell
1. noun /ˈfɔːsmɛl,fɔːˈsmɛl/
A smell which precedes or comes before something.

His father, a man of sixty, shorter than Hugh and also pudgier, had aged unappetizingly during his recent widowhood; his things let off a characteristic foresmell, faint but unmistakable, and he grunted and sighed in his sleep, dreaming of large unwieldy blocks of blackness [...].

2. verb /ˈfɔːsmɛl,fɔːˈsmɛl/
To smell in advance.

"I do not foresmell any immediate harm to thee from the harness, but as you might run a risk in using it, perhaps it will be safest for me to take it," said the Medium.


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