Reek

Definitions: Reek

Reek

Noun

1. A distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant.

Verb

1. Have an element suggestive (of something); "his speeches smacked of racism".

2. Smell to heaven.

3. Be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face.

4. Give off smoke, fumes, warm vapour, steam, etc.; "Marshes reeking in the sun".

Date "reek" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonyms: Reek

Synonyms: fetor (n), foetor (n), malodor (n), malodour (n), stench (n), fume (v), smack (v), stink (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Gaseity	Elastic fluid, gas, air, vapor, ether, steam, essence, fume, reek, effluvium, flatus; cloud; ammonia, ammoniacal gas; volatile alkali; vacuum, partial vacuum.
Heat	Verb: be hot. Adjective: glow, flush, sweat, swelter, bask, smoke, reek, stew, simmer, seethe, boil, burn, blister, broil, blaze, flame; smolder; parch, fume, pant.
Uncleanness	Verb: be unclean, become unclean; Adjective:; rot, putrefy, ferment, fester, rankle, reek; stink; mold, molder; go bad; Adjective:
Vaporization	Verb: render -gaseous; vaporize, volatilize; distill, sublime; evaporate, exhale, smoke, transpire, emit vapor, fume, reek, steam, fumigate; cohobate; finestill.
Water	Verb: be watery. Adjective: reek.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Reek

English words defined with "reek": Peat reek ♦ Reeked, Reeky. (references)

Specialty definitions using "reek": block reek ♦ soul. (references)

Etymologies containing "reek": Areek ♦ Roke. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Reek" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Frisian (smoke).

Domain	Title
Music	Reek of Putrefaction (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	SOUL, n. A spiritual entity concerning which there hath been brave disputation. Plato held that those souls which in a previous state of existence (antedating Athens) had obtained the clearest glimpses of eternal truth entered into the bodies of persons who became philosophers. Plato himself was a philosopher. The souls that had least contemplated divine truth animated the bodies of usurpers and despots. Dionysius I, who had threatened to decapitate the broad- browed philosopher, was a usurper and a despot. Plato, doubtless, was not the first to construct a system of philosophy that could be quoted against his enemies; certainly he was not the last. "Concerning the nature of the soul," saith the renowned author of Diversiones Sanctorum, "there hath been hardly more argument than that of its place in the body. Mine own belief is that the soul hath her seat in the abdomen -- in which faith we may discern and interpret a truth hitherto unintelligible, namely that the glutton is of all men most devout. He is said in the Scripture to 'make a god of his belly' -- why, then, should he not be pious, having ever his Deity with him to freshen his faith? Who so well as he can know the might and majesty that he shrines? Truly and soberly, the soul and the stomach are one Divine Entity; and such was the belief of Promasius, who nevertheless erred in denying it immortality. He had observed that its visible and material substance failed and decayed with the rest of the body after death, but of its immaterial essence he knew nothing. This is what we call the Appetite, and it survives the wreck and reek of mortality, to be rewarded or punished in another world, according to what it hath demanded in the flesh. The Appetite whose coarse clamoring was for the unwholesome viands of the general market and the public refectory shall be cast into eternal famine, whilst that which firmly through civilly insisted on ortolans, caviare, terrapin, anchovies, pates de foie gras and all such Christian comestibles shall flesh its spiritual tooth in the souls of them forever and ever, and wreak its divine thirst upon the immortal parts of the rarest and richest wines ever quaffed here below. Such is my religious faith, though I grieve to confess that neither His Holiness the Pope nor His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury (whom I equally and profoundly revere) will assent to its dissemination."
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Reek" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 68.97% of the time. "Reek" is used about 58 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	68.97%	40	54,274
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	13.79%	8	124,375
Lexical Verb (base form)	10.34%	6	143,867
Noun (proper)	6.9%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	58	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "reek" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Reek	Last name	170	54,718
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Expressions using "reek": block reek ♦ peat reek ♦ reek of ♦ reek of alcohol ♦ reek of garlic ♦ reek with. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "reek": quee-reek.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "reek"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		vjen (comes, draw in, feel, follow, leap, spring), mbaj erë (smell), kutërbon, kutërbim (nip, odor, odour, stench, stink), erë e keqe (fetidness, mephitis, stench, stink), avull (blur, exhalation, fume, steam, vapor, vapour). (various references)

Arabic		‏فوح برائحة كريهة, ‏تفوح منه عفونة, ‏تفوح منه رائحة عفنة (pong, smell), ‏عفن (corrupt, decay, decompose, frowsty, fusty, mildew, mold, mould, musty, obnoxious, putrefaction, putrefy, putrid, rank, rotten, septic, spoilt, stale, taint), ‏عفونة (moldiness, mouldiness, mustiness, putrescence, rottenness, stale), ‏ضباب (film, fog, gauze, haze, mirk, mist, murk, vapor, vapour), ‏أطلق دخانا أو بخارا, ‏رائحة كريهة (fetidness, fetor, pong, rankness, smell, stink), ‏رائحة نتنة (pong, smell, stench), ‏دخن (cure, fume, fumigate, inhale, smoke), ‏دخان (fume, smoke, smolder, smoulder), ‏بخار (fume, halitosis, steam, vapor, vapour). (various references)

Bulgarian		смърдя (smell, stink), смрад (stench), цял съм пропит, воня (fetidness, fetor, hum, pong, smell, stench, stink), пушек (smoke), пуша (fume, puff at, smoke, smolder, smoulder, whiff), пара (coin, exhalation, money, necessary, ready, steam, vapor, vapour), излъчвам (beam, discharge, eradiate, exhale, exude, give off, give out, irradiate, ooze, put out, radiate, respire, scintillate, send out, shed, throw up), изпущам пара (smoke, steam), изпарение (exhalation, fume, steam), димя (fume, smoke). (various references)

Chinese		恶臭 (malodorous, stink). (various references)

Czech		zápach (fetidness, hum, mephitic, odor, odour, scent, smell), výpar (vapor, vapour), smrad (niff, odor, odour, pong, smell, stench, stink), pařit se (swelter), páchnout (emit, smell, stink), kouřit (fume, smoke), dým (smother), èadit (smoke, smolder). (various references)

Danish		stinke (smell, smell bad, stink), lugte (give off an odour, smell). (various references)

Dutch		vies ruiken (smell, smell bad, stink), stinken (smell, smell bad, stink). (various references)

Esperanto		odori (give off an odour, smell), odoraĉi (smell bad, stink), fetori (smell, smell bad, stink). (various references)

Faeroese		rúka (give off an odour, smell), anga (give off an odour, smell). (various references)

Farsi		متصاعدشدن , بوی بددادن (Stink), بخارازدهان خارج کردن , بخاردهان , بخار (Gas, Haze, Steam). (various references)

Finnish		savuta (smoke), kärytä (smell). (various references)

French		sentir, puanteur. (various references)

Frisian		stjonke (smell, smell bad, stink). (various references)

German		gestank (fetidness, hum, malodorousness, odor, odour, pong, smell, stench, stink). (various references)

Greek		βαριά μυρουδιά, αναθυμιάζω (exhale), αναθυμίαση (exhalation, fume, stink, vapor, vapour, vapours). (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"סריח (smell, stink), לצחון (stink), צח� �" (fetidness, smell, stench), סרחון (malodor, stench, stink, transgression). (various references)

Hungarian		füst (fume, smoke), kigőzölgés (evaporation, exhalation, expiration, vapor, vapour), bűz (fetor, odour, stench, stink), áporodott szag (fug, fustiness). (various references)

Indonesian		berbau busuk. (various references)

Italian		sentire (feel, give, give off an odour, hear, sense, smell, taste). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�'臭い (reek of liquor), 厭に振っている (to reek of affectation). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		さけくさい (reek of liquor), いやにぶっている (to reek of affectation). (various references)

Manx		torcan (stench, stifling cloud of smoke, stink, strong smell), jaagh (fumes, smoke), ceau jaagh. (various references)

Norwegian		lukte (give off an odour, smell). (various references)

Papiamen		ole (give off an odour, smell), hole (give off an odour, smell). (various references)

Pig Latin		eekray

Portuguese		vapor (blur, fume, pack-horse, puff, steam, vapor, vapour), tresandar (stank, stink, stinking), sentir vapores, fumo (fume, smoke, tobacco, tobacco leaf, vapor, vapour, weed), fumegar (lupin, puff, smoke, steam), fumar (fume, puff, smoke, smoking, to smoke), exalar cheiro, exalação (breath, evaporative, exhalation, vapor, vapour), cheiro forte, cheirar mal (smell, stank, stink), cheirar (breathe, give off an odour, inhale, nose, savor, savour, scent, smell, wind). (various references)

Romanian		scoate fum, puţi, mirosi urât (stink), miros urât (odor, odour), iz (Flavor, flavour, savor, savour, smack, taste, touch, whiff), fumega (fume, smoke, steam), fum (flue, fume, smoke, smother, whiff), evaporare (evaporation, exhalation), duhni (stink), asuda (grind, steam, sweat, swelter, toil, transpire), afuma (burn, corn, cure, deodorize, disinfect, fume, fumigate, gammon, perfume, pickle, scent, smoke, smoke out, smoke-dry, smudge, steam, sulphur), aburealã (damp, exhalation, fume, steam, vapor, vapour), abur (breath, breathing, breeze, damp, exhalation, fog, fume, haze, smoke, smother, steam, vapor, vapour). (various references)

Russian		вонять (stank, stinks, stunk). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		težak miris, osećati se (smack), mirisati (savor, savour, smack, smell, sniff). (various references)

Spanish		apestar (infest, pong, smell, smell bad, smell out, stink, stink out), oler (give off an odour, nose, pry, savor, savour, scent, smack, smell, smell out, sniff, sniff out, to smell, whiff), oler mal (smell, smell bad, stink). (various references)

Sranan		smeri (aroma, flavour, give off an odour, odor, odour, scent, smell, stench). (various references)

Swedish		stinka (hum, smell, smell bad, stink), stank (fetidness, fetor, foulness, fume, funk, stank, stench, stink, stunk). (various references)

Thai		กลิ่นเหม็น (effluvium, ronk). (various references)

Turkish		tütmek (fume, give out smoke, smoke), tütme (giving out smoke, smoke, smoking), pis koku (niff, pong, smell, stench, stink), pis kokmak (pong, smell bad, stink), kokmak (addle, fester, go bad, savor of, savour of, smell, stink), kötü koku (stinker), buğulanmak (mist over), buğu (condensation, mist, steam, vapor, vapour). (various references)

Ukranian		сморід (fetidity, fetidness, fetor, foetidness, foulness, malodour, mephitis, stench, stink), смердіти (funk, stink), димити, дим (fume, smoke). (various references)

Vietnamese		mùi n�"ng nặc, mùi mốc (mustiness). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	fervens, fervente, ferventes, ferventis, ferverunt, fervet, fumabat, fumabis, fumans, fumantem, fumet, fumo, nidor. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "reek": reeked, reeker, reekers, reekier, reekiest, reeking, reeks, reeky. (additional references)
	Words ending with "reek": creek, fenugreek, greek, streek. (additional references)
	Words containing "reek": breeks, creeks, fenugreeks, streeked, streeker, streekers, streeking, streeks. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Reek" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arek, breek, dreek, eeek, eeeuk, Krek, radek, rauk, Rayak, Razek, reac, reaky, rec, recb, reck, reeb, reeg, reeh, reej, Reem, reep, reer, reev, reew, reez, reik, reink, rej, reje, rek, reka, remec, remek, renk, req, resk, reuo, Revenko, rewk, rhek, riec, riek, rieu, rike, rirk, roek, rrek, Rujeka, ryc, ryk, Ryke, Rykov, Rynek, veek, zeek. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "reek" (pronounced rē"k)
3	r ē" k	creak, Creek, freak, greek, shriek, streak, wreak.
2	-ē" k	antique, batik, beak, bespeak, bleak, boutique, cacique, cheek, chic, cleek, clique, critique, Dominique, eke, geek, leak, leek, meek, misspeak, mystique, oblique, peak, peek, physique, pique, respeak, seek, sheik, Sheikh, sleek, sneak, speak, squeak, teak, technique, tweak, unique, weak, week.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-k-r"
	-1 letter: eke, ere, ree.
	-2 letters: er, re.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-k-r"
	+1 letter: creek, esker, greek, kerne, kreep, rakee, reeks, reeky, rekey.
	+2 letters: beaker, berake, breeks, creeks, decker, dekare, eskers, eureka, evoker, fakeer, jerked, jerker, keener, keeper, kegler, kelter, kerbed, kerfed, kermes, kerned, kernel, kernes, kersey, kreeps, leaker, meeker, necker, pecker, perked, peruke, rakees, rebeck, rebuke, recked, reeked, reeker, rekeys, remake, reperk, reseek, retake, revoke, rewake, rewoke, seeker, skewer, streek, weaker, yerked.
	+3 letters: barkeep, beakers, beakier, beraked, berakes, berserk, bleaker, breaker, checker, clerked, creaked, deckers, dekares, evokers, fakeers, freaked, freckle, geekier, gerenuk, hearken, heckler, hektare, jerkers, jerkier, jerkies, keeners, keepers, keester, kegeler, keglers, keister, kelters, kermess, kernels, kernite, kerogen, kerries, kerseys, kestrel, keyster, kiester, klezmer, kneader, kneeler, kreuzer, leakers, leakier, meerkat, nakeder, neckers, peakier, peckers, peckier, perkier, peruked, perukes, peskier, pickeer, prebake, reawake, reawoke, rebecks, rebuked, rebuker, rebukes, recheck, redneck, reekers, reekier, reeking, reevoke, reinked, rekeyed, remaker, remakes, reperks, reseeks, respeak, respoke, restoke, retaken, retaker, retakes, revoked, revoker, revokes, rewaked, rewaken, rewakes, rewoken, seekers, skeeter, skelter, skewers, skreegh, sleeker, smerked, sneaker, speaker, streeks, trekked, trekker, wakener, wreaked, wreaker, wrecked, wrecker.
	+4 letters: ankerite, awakener, bakeries, barkeeps, bearlike, beckoner, bedarken, bedmaker, berserks, bickered, bickerer, bidarkee, brakeage, brakemen, breakage, breakers, brokered, bunkered, cankered, caretake, checkers, cheekier, cockered, cockerel, creakier, crewneck, dackered, daikered, dakerhen, darkened, darkener, debarked, debunker, deerlike, deerskin, demarked, deticker, dickered, diemaker, ecofreak, embarked, eurokies, fakeries, fernlike, foredeck, foreknew, forepeak, freakier, freckled, freckles, gerenuks, hankered, hankerer, harelike, harkened, harkener, hearkens, hecklers, hektares, herblike, herdlike, hunkered, icemaker, jerkiest, jokester, junketer, kashered, kedgeree, keesters, kegelers, keisters, keratose, kerchief, kermeses, kermesse, kermises, kerneled, kernites, kerogens, kerosene, kerosine, kestrels, keynoter, keysters, kiesters, killdeer, kippered, kipperer, klezmers, kneaders, kneelers, koshered, kreutzer, kreuzers, lackered, likelier, lorikeet, mackerel, makeover, marketed, marketer, meerkats, neckwear, nickered, overbake, overdeck, overkeen, overmeek, overtake, overweak, oxpecker, parakeet, perkiest, pickeers, pickerel, picketer, pocketer, prebaked, prebakes, precheck, puckered, puckerer, racketed, rakehell, reawaked, reawaken, reawakes, reawoken, rebooked, rebukers, rechecks, reckless, reckoned, reckoner, recocked, recooked, recorked, rednecks, redocked, reedbuck, reedlike, reekiest, reembark, reevoked, reevokes, reinvoke, rejacket, rekeying, rekindle, relinked, relocked, relooked, remakers, remarked, remarker, remarket, repacked, reparked, reperked, reracked, resketch, resoaked, respeaks, respoken, restoked, restokes, restrike, retacked, retackle, retakers, revokers, rewakens, reworked, rocketed, rocketer, rockweed, ropelike, roselike, runelike, screaked, serflike, shikaree, shrieked, shrieker, sickener, skeeters, skelters, skerries, sketcher, skewered, skreeghs, sleekier, sneakers, sneakier, speakers, squeaker, streaked, streaker, streeked, streeker, suckered, takeover, teamaker, telemark, tinkered, tinkerer, treelike, trekkers, triskele, tuckered, tweakier, wakeners, wakerife, weakener, weaklier, whelkier, wickeder, wirelike, workweek, wreakers, wreckage, wreckers, yarmelke.
	+5 letters: aerobrake, afterdeck, ankerites, awakeners, barkeeper, beckoners, bedarkens, bedmakers, beekeeper, berkelium, berrylike, berserker, berserkly, bickerers, bidarkees, blackener, blinkered, bracketed, brakeages, brakeless, breakable, breakages, breakeven, breakneck, brokerage, bucklered, canebrake, caretaken, caretaker, caretakes, checkered, checkrein, chickaree, clerklier, clinkered, cockerels, cookeries, creakiest, crewnecks, cricketed, cricketer, crocketed, crookeder, dakerhens, darkeners, debunkers, deerskins, defrocked, dekaliter, dekameter, detickers, diemakers, dirgelike, dreamlike, earmarked, earthlike, ecofreaks, eukaryote, euryokies, fenugreek, firebreak, firedrake, flickered, forecheck, foredecks, forepeaks, forespeak, forespoke, foretoken, freakiest, frecklier, friedcake, grapelike, greenback, greensick, hankerers, harkeners, hearkened, homemaker, horselike, icemakers, innkeeper, jerkiness, jerkwater, jokesters, junketeer, junketers, kedgerees, keratoses, kerchiefs, kerfuffle, kermesses, kerneling, kernelled, kerosenes, kerosines, keynoters, keystroke, kieserite, killdeers, kilometer, kipperers, kirmesses, knackered, knaveries, kreutzers, kvetchier, lakeshore, lorikeets, mackerels, makeovers, makeready, marketeer, marketers, mockeries, monkeries, musketeer, nebenkern, networked, newmarket, newsbreak, newsmaker, overbaked, overbakes, overdecks, oversmoke, overtaken, overtakes, oxpeckers, ozokerite, pacemaker, parakeets, parrakeet, perkiness, pickeered, pickerels, picketers, piecework, pocketers, pokeberry, prebooked, prechecks, precooked, premarket, prepacked, presoaked, prestrike, puckerers, puckerier, purselike, quickener, racketeer, racketier, rakehells, rakehelly, reawakens, rechecked, reckoners, rednecked, reedbucks, reembarks, reevoking, refusenik, reinvoked, reinvokes, rejackets, rekindled, rekindles, reknitted, remarkers, remarkets, repackage, reperking, reseeking, restacked, restocked, restrikes, retackled, retackles, rethinker, retracked, revokable, rewakened, ricketier, rockeries, rocketeer, rocketers, rockweeds, rookeries, screwlike, sheldrake, shikarees, shoemaker, shrewlike, shriekers, shriekier, sickeners, skeltered, sketchers, sketchier, skewering, skippered, skittered, skreeghed, skreighed, sneakered, snickered, snickerer, snookered, snorkeled, snorkeler, spelunker, squeakers, squeakier, steelwork, streakers, streakier, streekers, streeking, sunseeker, takeovers, teamakers, telemarks, thickener, tigerlike, tinkerers, towerlike, trebucket, trinketed, trinketer, triskeles, triweekly, undertake, weakeners, weekender, wheelwork, whickered, whiskered, winemaker, workpiece, worksheet, workweeks, wreckages, yarmelkes, zookeeper.
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