reek

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noun

Plural noun:

reeks

1.
(countable, uncountable)A strong unpleasant smell.
2.
(Scotland, countable, uncountable)Vapour; steam; smoke; fume.
1768, Alexander Ross (poet), "Helenore; or, the fortunate Shepherdess": a Poem in the Broad Scoth Dialect Now, by this time, the sun begins to leam, And lit the hill-heads with his morning beam; And birds, and beasts, and folk to be a-steer, And clouds o’ reek frae lum heads to appear.
3.
A pile, a heap (as of snow, hay, etc).
4.
(Ireland)A hill; a mountain.

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verb

V_es/s

reeks

V_ing/Gerund

reeking

V_ed/pp

reeked

1.
(intransitive)To have or give off a strong, unpleasant smell.
You reek of perfume.
Your fridge reeks of egg.
2.
(figuratively, intransitive)To be evidently associated with something unpleasant.
The boss appointing his nephew as a director reeks of nepotism.
Đồng nghĩa: smack
3.
(archaic, intransitive)To be emitted or exhaled, emanate, as of vapour or perfume.
4.
(archaic, intransitive)To emit smoke or vapour; to steam.
5.
(rare, transitive)To cause (something) to smell.
6.
(archaic)(now rare, of rain or snow) To fall in such a way (e.g. particularly finely or heavily) as to resemble smoke.

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From Middle English rek, reke (smoke), from Old English rēc, from *rauki, from Proto-Germanic *raukiz, from Proto-Indo-European *rowgi-.