foetid

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1. alternativeAlternative spelling of fetid.

   Close contact with the utterly bizarre is often more terrifying than inspiring, and it did not cheer me to think that this very bit of dusty road was the place where those monstrous tracks and that foetid green ichor had been found after moonless nights of fear and death.

   1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 6, in The Whisperer in Darkness