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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
body odour
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
Body odour Like halitosis, body odour can be extremely unpleasant and embarrassing.
▪ After reports of Keanu's personal hygiene problem, much star bitching now focuses on body odour.
▪ Aroma preference is also largely influenced by our body odour.
▪ If you suffer from body odour, the first thing you need to do is control your sweating.
▪ So, it could be goodbye to body odour - but only in the right room.
▪ While on the subject of body odour, during the sixteenth century, valerian was a popular perfume.
Wiktionary
body odour

alt. The unpleasant smell emitted by a person's body, caused by bacteria multiplied by sweat. n. The unpleasant smell emitted by a person's body, caused by bacteria multiplied by sweat.

WordNet
body odour

n. malodorousness resulting from a failure to bathe [syn: body odor, B.O.]

Usage examples of "body odour".

Not only must the man eradicate my phobic body odour but he has to make me invisible once more.

My body odour when I'm well and happy is much like that of a cat in heat.

The group beneath the map seemed to move slightly away from him, as if he had begun to exude a powerful, offensive body odour.

As Sean became aware of her excitement, the flush of blood beneath her tan, the agitated breathing that made her bosom beneath the angora jersey and pearls work like a bellows and the subtle change in her body odour that the average male would not have noticed, but which to Sean was like an invitation on an embossed card, he found his own arousal was spiced by the perversity of the situation.

Sweating, she smelled that awful musty underground stench again, changing to her own body odour as she opened her eyes, staring fearfully around the room.

The pungence of stale body odour quickly filled the room, and I wondered when they'd last bathed him.

Serena could smell the wound, too, over the other scents around her: the cat, the grass and weeds she crushed beneath her, her own body odour.