I was in a foul mood when I went for a walk. The fowl flew away when I approached its nest. That fowl had a foul smell when it passed by me. Suddenly, a foul ball hit the flying fowl when it flew over the baseball field. (It survived and flew out of sight. The fowl is having a foul day.)

Foul – something offensive, smelly, horrid, obscene, dishonorable, polluted, dirty, obstruction, an infringement of the rules

Fowl - a bird of any kind

This misspelling isn’t as common, but unfortunately still exists. So, if you say something smells fowl, you have likened the smell to a bird. If you say you saw a some a feathery foul zip by your car, you have likened what you saw to something smelly.

You could smell that in your car?

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