reek

Meanings

1. A strong unpleasant smell.
2. Vapour; steam; smoke; fume.

1. To have or give off a strong, unpleasant smell.
2. To be evidently associated with something unpleasant.
3. To be emitted or exhaled, emanate, as of vapour or perfume.
4. To emit smoke or vapour; to steam.
5. To cause (something) to smell.
6. To fall in such a way (e.g. particularly finely or heavily) as to resemble smoke.

1. A pile, a heap (as of snow, hay, etc).

1. A hill; a mountain.

Etymology

From Middle English rek, reke (“smoke”), from Old English rēc, from Proto-West Germanic *rauki, from Proto-Germanic *raukiz, from Proto-Indo-European *rowgi-. See also West Frisian reek, riik, Dutch rook, Low German Röök, German Rauch, Danish røg, Norwegian Bokmål røyk; also Lithuanian rū̃kti (“to smoke”), rū̃kas (“smoke, fog”), Albanian regj (“to tan”).