emit a strong offensive odor; emit smoke or fumes; be wet with blood or sweat; process something with smoke; create a powerful impression
vapor, mist, steam; smoke, fume; strong offensive odor, unpleasant smell
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Reek Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(v. i.)
To emit vapor, usually that which is warm and moist; to be full of fumes; to steam; to smoke; to exhale.
To emit vapor, usually that which is warm and moist; to be full of fumes; to steam; to smoke; to exhale.
(n.)
Vapor; steam; smoke; fume.
Vapor; steam; smoke; fume.
(n.)
A rick.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutA rick.
reek
\reek\ (rēk), n. a rick. [obs.] jonson.
reek
\reek\, n. [as. r&emc;c; akin to ofries. rēk, lg. & d. rook, g. rauch, ohg. rouh, dan. r?g, sw. r?k, icel. reykr, and to as. re?can to reek, smoke, icel. rjūka, g. riechen to smell.] vapor; steam; smoke; fume. as hateful to me as the reek of a limekiln.
reek
\reek\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. reeked (rēkt); p. pr. & vb. n. reeking.] [as. rēcan. see reek vapor.] to emit vapor, usually that which is warm and moist; to be full of fumes; to steam; to smoke; to exhale. few chimneys reeking you shall espy. i found me laid in balmy sweat, which with his beams the sun soon dried, and on the reeking moisture fed. the coffee rooms reeked with tobacco.
reek
n : a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant [syn: malodor, malodour, stench, stink, fetor, foetor]
v
1. have an element suggestive (of something); "his speeches smacked of racism" [syn: smack]
2. smell to heaven [syn: stink]
3. be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face [syn: fume]
4. give off smoke, fumes, warm vapour, steam, etc.; "marshes reeking in the sun"
Ager = n. vapour; steam, reek
Huddygl = n. soot, reek
Noun
1. a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant
(synonym) malodor, malodour, stench, stink, fetor, foetor, mephitis
(hypernym) smell, odor, odour, olfactory sensation, olfactory perception
(hyponym) niff, pong
(derivation) stink
Verb
1. have an element suggestive (of something); "his speeches smacked of racism"
(synonym) smack
(hypernym) suggest, evoke, paint a picture
2. smell badly and offensively; "The building reeks of smoke"
(synonym) stink
(hypernym) smell
(derivation) malodor, malodour, stench, stink, fetor, foetor, mephitis
3. be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face
(synonym) fume
(hypernym) exude, exudate, transude, ooze out, ooze
4. give off smoke, fumes, warm vapour, steam, etc.; "Marshes reeking in the sun"
(hypernym) emit, give out, give off
Reek Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Reek may refer to:
- Reek (compound), a volatilized chemical compound that humans or other animals perceive by the sense of olfaction
- Reek (creature), a fictional creature in the Star Wars universe
- Reek (Netherlands)
- The Reek, a mountain in the west of Ireland
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