(smel'f
st)noun/slang
1. A sponger with a heightened ability to find and dine at good tables.
Is she really going out with him? He's nothing but a freeloader, a smell-feast!
Synonyms: The character Algernon from the Importance of Being Earnest, bootlicker, deadbeat, freeloader, hanger-on, house cat, idler, leach, sponge, sponger, sycophant, taker, yob.
* I must confess that when I first came upon this term, I thought it an apt description for a variable banquet of odours, not all of them pleasant.
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