Illustration: At a home kitchen sink, a cook lifts freshly washed fingers toward their nose and immediately recoils, eyebrows pinched and lips drawn tight. Beside the sink, a cleaned raw mackerel rests on a cutting board with a few shiny scales still nearby.

JLPT N1i-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

生なま臭ぐさい

namagusai

fishy-smelling

Example sentences

まな板いたが生臭なまぐさいです。
The chopping board smells fishy.
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なかから生臭なまぐさい臭においが漂ただよってくる。
A fishy smell drifts from inside.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
生臭なまぐさい匂においを消けす作用さようや、見みた目めを美うつくしくすることによって食欲しょくよくをそそる働はたらきがある。
It has deodorizing effects on fish-smell, and it also works to stimulate appetite by making the dish appear beautiful to the eye.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 生臭

生life; genuineOnセイ・ショウKunいきる・いかす・なま
臭stinking; ill-smellingOnシュウKunくさい・におう・におい

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