smell-feast

English

Noun

smell-feast (plural smell-feasts)

(archaic) One who is apt to find and frequent good tables; a parasite; a sponger.
- 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), 6th edition, London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, →OCLC:
  The epicure and the smell-feast.
- 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
  The fly is an intruder, and a common smell-feast, that spunges upon other Peoples Trenchers.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for smell-feast in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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