body odour

1. 1.

   malodorousness resulting from a failure to bathe

   Synonymsbody odorB.O.

   Broadermalodorousness

Questions about body odour

What does body odour mean?

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

What is another word for body odour?

Close synonyms include body odor, 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 odour a common word?

body odour is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.