The Collaborative International Dictionary
Smell-feast
Smell-feast \Smell"-feast`\, n.
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One who is apt to find and frequent good tables; a parasite; a sponger.
The epicure and the smell-feast.
--South. A feast at which the guests are supposed to feed upon the odors only of the viands.
Wiktionary
smell-feast
n. (context archaic English) One who is apt to find and frequent good tables; a parasite; a sponger.
Usage examples of "smell-feast".
The proper attitude toward such fathers is that of the toad, lickspittle, smell-feast, carpet knight, pickthank, or tuft-hunter.