Meanings
- historicalobsoleterareuncountablemedicineBody odour affecting the feet.
Li Zhixiang, a member of the PAP, which is estimated to have more than one million members, said the new shoes had dealt a body blow to bromodosis.
2015 July 22, Tom Phillips, “China's military gives 'liberation shoes' the boot in war on smelly feet”, in The Guardian1 more example
Copywriters soon discovered and labeled over a hundred new diseases, including such transparent imitations as "bromodosis" (sweaty foot odors), "homotosis" (lack of attractive home furnishings), "acidosis" (sour stomach), and such inventive afflictions as "office hips," "ashtray breath," and "accelerator toe."
1992, Jean Folkerts, Media voices: an historical perspective: an anthology, page 285
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