bad breath

English

Noun

bad breath (countable and uncountable, plural bad breaths)

1. (medicine, dentistry, informal) Breath that produces an unpleasant or foul-smelling odor when exhaled.

   Synonyms: (medical, politely euphemistic, or both) halitosis; bromopnea, fetor oris, ozostomia, stomatodysodia; (informal) dragonbreath

   Antonym: good breath

Related terms

• arsebreath and its synonyms
• breath check
• breath mint

Translations

unpleasant breath

• Arabic: بَخَر m (baḵar)
• Bikol Central: mabatang hangaw
• Cherokee: ᎠᎱᎵᏒᎦ (ahulisvga)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 口臭 (zh) (kǒuchòu)

• Czech: zápach z úst m
• Danish: dårlig ånde c
• Finnish: pahanhajuinen hengitys
• French: mauvaise haleine (fr)
• Galician: bafo (gl) m
• German: Mundegeruch m
• Italian: alito cattivo m
• Japanese: 口臭 (ja) (こうしゅう, kōshū)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dårlig ånde m

• Portuguese: mau hálito m, halitose (pt) f, bafo (pt) m
• Russian: неприя́тный за́пах и́зо рта́ m (neprijátnyj zápax ízo rtá), галито́з m (galitóz)
• Spanish: halitosis (es) m, mal aliento m, mal hálito m
• Swedish: dålig andedräkt (sv) c
• Tagalog: mabahong hininga
• Turkish: ağız kokusu (tr)
• Welsh: anadl ddrwg (cy) f