body odor

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   malodorousness resulting from a failure to bathe

   Synonymsbody odourB.O.

   Broadermalodorousness

Questions about body odor

What does body odor mean?

body odor means "malodorousness resulting from a failure to bathe".

What is another word for body odor?

Close synonyms include body odour, B.O.. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is body odor a common word?

body odor is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.