Meaning of smell-feast | Babel Free

Definitions

One who is apt to find and frequent places where good food is available; especially one who comes uninvited to a meal; a parasite; a sponger.

archaic

Examples

“Paraſites, were called ſoche ſmellefeaſtes as would ſeeke to be free geaſtes at richemens tables.”

“Origen ſpeaks of the religation of theſe Dæmons near their Statues, vvhether by Magical incantation, or that, like ſo many ſmell-Feaſts, they hankered near the Altars, to enjoy the nidorous fumes of the Sacrifices, […]”

“She [the ant] lives upon her Ovvn, Honeſtly Gotten and Poſſeſs'd, vvithout either Envy or Violence; VVhereas the Fly is an Intruder, and a Common Smell-Feaſt, that Spunges upon Other peoples Trenchers.”

“[W]ho has a ſtupid Intellect, a Broken memory, and a blaſted vvit, and (vvhich is vvorſe than all) a Blind and a Benighted Conſcience, but the Intemperate and Luxurious, the Epicure and the Smell-feaſt?”

“The smell-feasts rouse them at the hint / There's cookery in a certain dwelling-place!”

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