body odour

body odour
noun
malodorousness resulting from a failure to bathe
Syn: ↑body odor, ↑B.O.
Hypernyms: ↑malodorousness, ↑stinkiness, ↑foulness, ↑rankness, ↑fetidness

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body odour UK US noun [uncountable]
bo
Thesaurus: washing or cleaning yourself or someone elsehyponym clean and tidy in appearancesynonym

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ˈbody odour [body odour] (especially US ˈbody odor) noun uncountable (abbr. BO)
an unpleasant smell from a person's body, especially of sweat

Nobody told her she had a body odour problem.


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  • body odour — noun (C) the natural smell of someone s body, especially when this is unpleasant; bo …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

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