Smellie

English Proper noun en Scottish Gaelic. en 1902 John Buchan The Outgoing of the Tide Once Robert Smellie found her in a ruinous kirk on the Lang Muir, where of old the idolatrous rites of Rome were practiced. en 2010 w:Alexander McCall Smith The Importance of Being Seven Polygon 978-1-84697-145-7 13 Poor Mhairi Smellie. Her first name, a Scots Gaelic name, was pronounced "vary", which sounded close to very. The name Smellie was common enough in Scotland, but to be called something which sounded like "very smelly" was a singular misfortune, and indicative, surely, of a lack of parental foresight.