ɪk adjective
1.
offensive to the smell.
2.
noxious; pestilential; poisonous.
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mephitic or mephitical (mɪˈfɪtɪk) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | poisonous; foul |
| 2. | foul-smelling; putrid |
| [C17: from Late Latin mephīticus pestilential] | |
| mephitical or mephitical | |
| —adj | |
| [C17: from Late Latin mephīticus pestilential] | |
| me'phitically or mephitical | |
| —adv | |
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Mephitic
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
mephitic
1620s, from L.L. mephiticus, from L. mephitis "noxious vapor" (also personified as a goddess believed to have the power to avert it).
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Medical Dictionary
mephitic me·phit·ic (mə-fĭt'ĭk)
adj.
Having a foul odor; foul-smelling.
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