Odoriferous

            Odoriferous is a real word!  (It was the August 21st word of the day on Dictionary.com)  I always thought it was something my family made up.

            I was just browsing other August words of the day, and I believe my favorite is willowwacks.  I even looked up the lyrics to the Disney hit, “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” mistakenly thinking that “willowwacks” was the refrain.  I was wrong.  It is “A-weemah-weh.”  Pretty easy mistake to make, huh?

            Anyway, back to odoriferous, which is the perfect word to describe how a house smells when the resident cat uses the carpeted hallway as its litter box.  It is also a wonderful way to describe body odor in a jam-packed public bus or the stale, nauseating stench of an unventilated classroom full of sweaty adolescents  on a hot afternoon.

            Hmm . . . maybe thinking about odoriferous is the key to staying on my diet.