Smellie

English

Proper noun

Smellie

1. A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
   • 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.

   • 2010, Alexander McCall Smith, The Importance of Being Seven, Polygon, →ISBN, page 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.