get a noseful

1. 1.

   smell strongly and intensely

   Synonymsget a whiff

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Questions about get a noseful

What does get a noseful mean?

get a noseful means "smell strongly and intensely".

What is another word for get a noseful?

Close synonyms include get a whiff. 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 get a noseful a common word?

get a noseful 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.