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Definitions: Reeking |
ReekingAdjective1. Wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or blood or tears; "wiped his reeking neck". 2. Giving off a strong unpleasant smell. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "reeking" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Synonyms: ReekingSynonyms: dripping (adj), watery (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Heat | Sunny, torrid, tropical, estival, canicular, steamy; close, sultry, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, oppressive; reeking. Verb: baking . |
Moisture | Swashy, soggy, dabbled; reeking, dripping, soaking,soft, sodden, sloppy, muddy; swampy. (marshy); irriguous. |
Vaporization | Adjective: volatilized. Verb: reeking. Verb: volatile; evaporable, vaporizable. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Reeking |
| English words defined with "reeking": Areek ♦ dripping ♦ reek ♦ watery. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "reeking": MACROBIAN ♦ sycophant. (references) |
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Screenplays | You son of a double-eyed whore from the reeking gutters of Rotterdam! (Pirates; writing credit: John Brownjohn) | |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The edge of the hole in the ceiling was very soon surrounded with the heads of the dead, from which flowed long red and reeking lines. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | For him! For him! He sprang from the bed, the reeking odour pouring down his throat, clogging and revolting his entrails. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SYCOPHANT, n. One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor. As the lean leech, its victim found, is pleased To fix itself upon a part diseased Till, its black hide distended with bad blood, It drops to die of surfeit in the mud, So the base sycophant with joy descries His neighbor's weak spot and his mouth applies, Gorges and prospers like the leech, although, Unlike that reptile, he will not let go. Gelasma, if it paid you to devote Your talent to the service of a goat, Showing by forceful logic that its beard Is more than Aaron's fit to be revered; If to the task of honoring its smell Profit had prompted you, and love as well, The world would benefit at last by you And wealthy malefactors weep anew -- Your favor for a moment's space denied And to the nobler object turned aside. Is't not enough that thrifty millionaires Who loot in freight and spoliate in fares, Or, cursed with consciences that bid them fly To safer villainies of darker dye, Forswearing robbery and fain, instead, To steal (they call it "cornering") our bread May see you groveling their boots to lick And begging for the favor of a kick? Still must you follow to the bitter end Your sycophantic disposition's trend, And in your eagerness to please the rich Hunt hungry sinners to their final ditch? In Morgan's praise you smite the sounding wire, And sing hosannas to great Havemeyher! What's Satan done that him you should eschew? He too is reeking rich -- deducting you. |
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Rush Limbaugh | Folks, I'm sitting here thinking that there's a public service we could all engage in that would be reeking of compassion and demonstrative of the heart we all possess. |
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| "Reeking" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Reeking" is used about 24 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 66.67% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 33.33% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 24 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "reeking": reeking with sweat. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "reeking": beer-reeking, cordite-reeking, corpse-reeking, fox-reeking. | |
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| Language | Translations for "reeking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | потънал в пот (reeking with sweat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 发臭" (Reeked). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | rauchend (fuming, smoking, smoky), stinkend (fetid, fetidly, foul smelling, rank, smelly, stinking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | צחון (smelly, stinking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | gőzölgő (steamy), füstölgő (smoky), bűzlő. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | puzzolente (bad-smelling, noisome, rank, smelly, stinking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eekingray hediondo (fetid, foetid, malodorous, smelly, stinking). (various references) rykande (smoking, smoky). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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Words ending with "reeking": streeking. (additional references) | |
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"Reeking" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: greeking, recang, recking, reebing, reeding, reeming, reeping, reiking, reinking, rekeying, rekind, reknit, renkin, reuing, Rieken, Ryukin, treeking, yeuking. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "reeking" (pronounced rē"king) |
| 5 | r ē" k i ng | creaking, freaking, shrieking, streaking, wreaking. |
| 4 | -ē" k i ng | critiquing, eking, leaking, peaking, peeking, seeking, sneaking, speaking, squeaking, tweaking. |
| 3 | -k i ng | aching, antismoking, asking, attacking, backing, backtracking, baking, balking, banking, barking, basking, biking, bilking, blanking, blinking, blocking, bloodsucking, booking, bookmaking, braking, breaking, breathtaking, broking, Brooking, bucking, carjacking, caulking, chalking, checking, choking, chucking, clanking, clicking, cloaking, clucking, cocking, coking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cracking, cranking, croaking, debunking, decking, disliking, docking, dressmaking, drinking, ducking, duking, earmarking, earthshaking, embarking, evoking, faking, filmmaking, flaking, flanking, flicking, flocking, flunking, forking, forsaking, franking, frolicking, fucking, gawking, glassmaking, groundbreaking, hacking, handshaking, hardworking, harking, Hawking, heartbreaking, hijacking, hiking, hitchhiking, Hocking, homemaking, honking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, invoking, jacking, jaywalking, jerking, joking, junking, kayaking, kicking, knocking, lacking, lawbreaking, lawmaking, licking, liking, linking, locking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, lurking, making, marking, masking, matchmaking, meatpacking, metalworking, milking, mimicking, mistaking, mocking, moneymaking, moviemaking, mucking, muckraking, multitasking, networking, nitpicking, nonbanking, nonsmoking, overbooking, overlooking, overtaking, packing, painstaking, panicking, papermaking, parking, peacemaking, pecking, perking, picking, piggybacking, planking, plinking, plucking, plunking, poking, politicking, provoking, quaking, quarterbacking, racking, raking, ranking, ransacking, rebuking, reinking, remaking, remarking, restocking, retaking, rethinking, revoking, reworking, risking, rocking, rollicking, sacking, shaking, sharking, shirking, shocking, shrinking, shucking, sinking, sleepwalking, smacking, smirking, smoking, snaking, soaking, socking, spacewalking, spanking, sparking, spiking, squawking, stacking, staking, stalking, steelmaking, sticking, stinking, stockbroking, stocking, stoking, striking, stroking, sucking, sulking, tacking, taking, talking, tanking, tasking, thanking, ticking, tracking, trafficking, trekking, tricking, trucking, tucking, undertaking, undocking, unlocking, unpacking, unthinking, viking, waking, walking, whacking, winking, wisecracking, woodworking, working, wracking, wrecking, yanking. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-k-n-r" | |
-2 letters: eking, genie, genre, greek, green, inker, kerne, reign, reink, renig. | |
-3 letters: eger, erne, geek, gene, gien, gink, girn, gree, grin, keen, keir, kern, kier, kine, king, kirn, knee, reek, rein, ring, rink. | |
-4 letters: eke, eng, ere, erg, ern, gee, gen, gie, gin, ink, ire, irk, keg, ken, kin, kir, nee, ree, reg, rei, rig, rin. | |
-5 letters: en, er, in, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-k-n-r" | |
+1 letter: rekeying. | |
+2 letters: greensick, kerneling, reevoking, reperking, reseeking, skewering, streeking. | |
+3 letters: checkering, fingerlike, hearkening, kernelling, pickeering, rechecking, respeaking, rewakening, skeltering, skreeghing. | |
+4 letters: bedarkening, granitelike, greenockite, overdecking, prechecking, reawakening, reembarking, rejacketing, remarketing, resketching, tiebreaking. | |
+5 letters: fingerpicked, forechecking, forespeaking, foretokening, freethinking, greenbackism, greenockites, kindergarten, premarketing, racketeering. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 65 6B 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . . -.- .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01100101 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e e k i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0065 006B 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52717177758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Quotations: Spoken | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Translations: Modern 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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