halitosic

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:05 AM -0500 1/13/11, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>Halitosis is such a commonly known word that one is amazed not to find the
>corresponding adj. "halitosic" in either MW11 or OED.
>
>Hundreds of raw Googlits.  What other word would do?
>
>JL
>
>--
...and my "halitotic" beats your "halitosic" 4 to 1, so it must be a
better word.

LH

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