What is "noseful"

Usage examples of "noseful".

Or it might be a smoothie in the detective business trying to get a noseful of somebody else's case in order to chisel a way into it.

Not sickness but rot, so faint I had to get a noseful before I was sure.

Let a Barker sniff that and he would get a noseful as would send him off again, for it was the fat of the deadly snake.

Off and on, during his life, he had had occasion to get a noseful of carbon tet.

Or it might be a smoothie in the detective business trying to get a noseful of somebody else’.