THE FIRST WORD

olid

PRONUNCIATION:

(O-lid) 

MEANING:

adjective: Foul-smelling.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin olere (to smell) which also gave us an opposite of today's word: redolent. Earliest documented use: 1680.

USAGE:

"Ducks' blood smells no less olid than pig's blood."
Merilyn Oniszczuk Jackson; A Sow of Violence; The Massachusetts Review (Amherst); Autumn 2004.