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Definition reek

Etymology 1

From Middle English rek, reke (“smoke”), from Old English r?c, r?ec, from Proto-Germanic *raukiz (compare West Frisian reek, riik, Dutch rook, Low German Röök, German Rauch, Danish røg, Norwegian Bokmål røyk), from Proto-Indo-European *rowgi- (compare Lithuanian r??kti (“to smoke”), r??kas (“smoke, fog”), Albanian regj (“to tan”)).

Noun

reek (countable and uncountable, plural reeks)

1. A strong unpleasant smell.
2. (Scotland) Vapour; steam; smoke; fume.

Etymology 2

From Middle English reken (“to smoke”), from Old English r?ocan, from Proto-Germanic *reukan? (compare Dutch ruiken, Low German rüken, German riechen, Danish ryge, Swedish ryka), from Proto-Indo-European *rougi-. See above.

Verb

reek (third-person singular simple present reeks, present participle reeking, simple past and past participle reeked)

1. (intransitive) To have or give off a strong, unpleasant smell.
2. (intransitive, figuratively) To be evidently associated with something unpleasant.
3. (archaic, intransitive) To be emitted or exhaled, emanate, as of vapour or perfume.
4. (archaic, intransitive) To emit smoke or vapour; to steam.

Etymology 3

Probably a transferred use (after Irish cruach (“stack (of corn), pile, mountain, hill”)) of a variant of rick, with which it is cognate.

Noun

reek (plural reeks)

1. (Ireland) A hill; a mountain.

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