Cryptic crossword clue
Put up with unpleasant smell visiting old university rector

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word HUMOUR

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What does HUMOUR mean?

HUMOUR noun
  1. The quality of being amusing, comical, funny.
  2. A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim.
  3. Any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body.
  4. Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.
  5. Moist vapour, moisture.
HUMOUR verb
  1. To pacify by indulging.

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