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   reek

   /riːk/

   verb

   • 1. smell strongly and unpleasantly; stink: "the yard reeked of wet straw and horse manure"
   • ▪ be suggestive of something unpleasant or undesirable: "the speeches reeked of anti-Semitism"
   • ▪ give off smoke, steam, or fumes: "while temples crash, and towers in ashes reek"

   noun

   • 1. a foul smell: "the reek of cattle dung"
   • 2. smoke: Scottish "he recovered himself and turned to peer through the reek"

   Word Origin Old Englishrēocan ‘give out smoke or vapour’, rēc (noun) ‘smoke’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch rieken ‘to smell’, rook ‘smoke’, German riechen ‘to smell’, Rauch ‘smoke’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. reeky adjective

   Scrabble Points: 8

   • R

     1

   • E

     1

   • E

     1

   • K

     5

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