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adj. Containing, or resembling, bilge.

adj. Having the smell of bilge water.

Having the properties (as the smell, etc.) of bilge-water.

adj. smelling like bilge water

"While I missed the maple trees and privet hedges and the bilgy smell of low tide, they enthusiastically showed me around."

Stinky    malodourous    unpleasant-smelling    ill-smelling    malodorous