to emit smell → to indicate something bad 11 realizations Multi-area
NEW Realization 1 (ID: 36062)
type Polysemy
language Croatian
lexeme mirisati
meaning 1 to emit smell

miriše po mošusu


it smells like musk

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meaning 2 to indicate something bad

to mi miriše na prevaru


that smells like a scam to me

reference HJP
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ACCEPTED Realization 2 (ID: 19023)
type Polysemy
language English
lexeme reek
meaning 1 to have or give off a strong, unpleasant smell You reek of perfume.
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meaning 2 to be evidently associated with something unpleasant The boss appointing his nephew as a director reeks of nepotism.
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ACCEPTED Realization 3 (ID: 19030)
type Polysemy
language English
lexeme to stink
meaning 1 to have a strong bad smell
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meaning 2 to give an impression of dishonesty, untruth, or sin Something stinks about the politician's excuses.
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ACCEPTED Realization 4 (ID: 19025)
type Polysemy
language Finnish
lexeme haiskahtaa
meaning 1 to smell foul, stink
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meaning 2 (figuratively) to appear suspicious; often may be translated into English using the idiom smell a rat Hänestä juttu alkoi haiskahtaa.
She began to smell a rat.
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NEW Realization 5 (ID: 36057)
type Polysemy
language Hungarian
lexeme bűzlik
meaning 1 to have or give off a strong, unpleasant smell

Orrfacsaróan bűzlik a temetetlen dög. 


The unburied carrion stinks.

direction →
meaning 2 to indicate something bad

Valami bűzlik Dániában


Valami bűzlik Dániában (=There's something wrong, scandal is expected)

reference MEK 1978
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NEW Realization 6 (ID: 52550)
type Polysemy
language Khoekhoe
lexeme ham [hȁm̀ ]
meaning 1 to emit smell
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meaning 2 to indicate something bad
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The data were collected with the dedicated elicitations with native speakers of Khoekhoe (Nama and Damara variety), during the preparation of paper "More than cognition: semantic shifts in the Khoekhoe perception verb system".

ACCEPTED Realization 7 (ID: 19024)
type Polysemy
language Russian
lexeme пахнуть
meaning 1 to have smell
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meaning 2 to have signs or traits of smth., to testify to the possibility of smth. Пахнуть официозностью, казёнщиной, лживостью. Это пахнет тюрьмой. Дело пахнет скандалом.
Pakhnut' ofitsioznost'yu, kazonshchinoy, lzhivost'yu. Eto pakhnet tyur'moy. Delo pakhnet skandalom. 89 / 5 000 Результаты перевода Smell of officialdom, bureaucracy, deceit. It smells like prison. The case reeks of scandal.
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NEW Realization 8 (ID: 36058)
type Polysemy
language Serbian
lexeme смрдети (smrdeti)
meaning 1 to smell bad

смрдети на зној


to stink of sweat

direction →
meaning 2 to indicate something bad

смрдети на издају, смрдети на рат


to reek of treason, to reek of war

reference Vujanitsh et al. 2007: 1247
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NEW Realization 9 (ID: 36061)
type Polysemy
language Serbian
lexeme мирисати (mirisati)
meaning 1 to emit smell

Ружа мирише. Соба мирише на просуто вино и зифт.


The rose smells. The room smells of spilled wine and pitch.

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meaning 2 to indicate something bad

мирисати на кризу (рат итд.)


to smell like a crisis (war etc.)

reference Vujanitsh et al. 2007: 713
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ACCEPTED Realization 10 (ID: 19026)
type Polysemy
language Swedish
lexeme stinka
meaning 1 to smell bad; to stink, reek Hon glödde av iver och stank av eau de cologne. (1926, Hjalmar Bergman, Farmor och Vår Herre)
She glowed with ardour and reeked of cologne.
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meaning 2 to give impression of foul play or dishonesty Den fortsatta granskningen av partiet visar att det fortfarande stinker. (2000, Claes Arvidsson, Svenska Dagbladet - editor's column)
The follow-up examination of the party shows that it still stinks.
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ACCEPTED Realization 11 (ID: 19027)
type Polysemy
language Turkish
lexeme kokmak
meaning 1 to have smell; to have a bad smell; stink, reek
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meaning 2 to show signs of, reek of, be redolent with
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