reek

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 rēk

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A strong unpleasant smell. countable,uncountable
  2. A pile, a heap (as of snow, hay, etc).
    — The fen "dikes" have been filled-in in some districts; and the black reeks remind one of snow-reeks, except for their blackness.
  3. A hill; a mountain. Ireland
  4. Vapour; steam; smoke; fume. Scotland,countable,uncountable
    — Thou mightst as well say, I loue to walke by the Counter-gate, which is as hatefull to me, as the reeke of a Lime-kill.
动词 v.
  1. To have or give off a strong, unpleasant smell. intransitive
    — You reek of perfume.
  2. To be evidently associated with something unpleasant. figuratively,intransitive
    — The boss appointing his nephew as a director reeks of nepotism.
  3. To be emitted or exhaled, emanate, as of vapour or perfume. archaic,intransitive
  4. To emit smoke or vapour; to steam. archaic,intransitive
    — […] innumerable Legions of his Angels of Light, the warm gleames of whose presence is able to make the Mountains to reek and smoak, and to awake that fiery principle that lies dormient in the Earth into a devouring flame.
  5. To cause (something) to smell. rare,transitive
    — The slaughter of lambs in offering reeked the fore-courts of the Temple.
  6. To fall in such a way (e.g. particularly finely or heavily) as to resemble smoke. archaic
    — ... the snow still darkens the air, and reeks along the curling wreaths, as if each were a furnace.

词形变化

reeks plural reeks present,singular,third-person reeking participle,present reeked participle,past reeked past reeks plural reeks plural

词汇关系

近义词
funk honk hum niff pong reek smell stink stink to high heaven whiff
反义词
defunkify deodorize destinkify
上位词
have a smell
下位词
foresmell knock a buzzard off a shit wagon outstink
衍生词
peat-reek reek-silver areek lang may yer lum reek reekage reeker reeksome reeky
相关词
malodorous stench

词源

词源 1
From Middle English rek, reke (“smoke”), from Old English rēc, from Proto-West Germanic *rauki, from Proto-Germanic *raukiz, from Proto-Indo-European *rowgi-.
Cognate with West Frisian reek, riik, Dutch rook (“smoke”), Low German Röök, German Rauch (“smoke”), Danish røg (“smoke”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk røyk (“smoke”), Swedish rök (“smoke”), Faroese roykur (“smoke”), Icelandic reykur (“smoke”); also Lithuanian rū̃kti (“to smoke”), rū̃kas (“smoke, fog”), Albanian regj (“to tan”).
词源 2
From Middle English reken (“to smoke”), from Old English rēocan, from Proto-West Germanic *reukan, from Proto-Germanic *reukaną, from Proto-Indo-European *rougi-. See above.
Related to Dutch ruiken, Low German rüken, German riechen, Danish ryge, Swedish ryka.
词源 3
From Middle English reke (“heap, pile”), from Old English hrēac.
词源 4
Probably a transferred use (after Irish cruach (“stack (of corn), pile, mountain, hill”)) of a variant of rick, with which it is cognate.
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