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You can make 11 words from reek according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of reek

reek erek reek erek eerk eerk reke erke rkee kree ekre kere reke erke rkee kree ekre kere eekr eekr eker keer eker keer

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word reek. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in reek.

Definitions and meaning of reek

reek

Pronunciation

• enPR: rēk, IPA^(key): /riːk/
• Rhymes: -iːk
• Homophone: wreak

Etymology 1

From Middle English rek, reke (“smoke”), from Old English rēc, rīec, 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”).

Noun

reek (countable and uncountable, plural reeks)

1. A strong unpleasant smell.
2. (Scotland) 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.

Derived terms

• peat-reek
• reek-silver

Translations

Etymology 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.

Verb

reek (third-person singular simple present reeks, present participle reeking, simple past and past participle reeked)

1. (intransitive) To have or give off a strong, unpleasant smell.

2. (intransitive, figuratively) To be evidently associated with something unpleasant.

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. (transitive, rare) To cause (something) to smell. [from 19th c.]

Derived terms

• lang may yer lum reek

Translations

Etymology 3

Probably a transferred use (after Irish cruach (“stack (of corn), pile, mountain, hill”)) of a variant of rick, with which it is cognate.

Noun

reek (plural reeks)

1. (Ireland) A hill; a mountain.

References

• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
• A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, F.M.T.Palgrave, English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896, [1]
• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, →ISBN
• Notes:

Anagrams

• eker, kere

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English rek, reke (“smoke”), from Old English rēc, rīec, from Proto-West Germanic *rauki, from Proto-Germanic *raukiz. Compare Swedish rök.

Noun

reek (plural reeks)

1. Vapour; steam; smoke; fume
2. A morning mist rising out of the ground.
3. The act of smoking a pipe or cigarette, a whiff, puff.

Verb

reek (third-person singular simple present reeks, present participle reekin, simple past reekt, past participle reekt)

1. Of a chimney: to emit smoke, to fail to emit smoke properly, sending it back into the room.
2. To smoke a pipe etc. To emit vapour or steam.
3. To show anger or fury, to fume, pour out one's spleen.

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian rēk, from Proto-West Germanic *rauki, from Proto-Germanic *raukiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reːk/

Noun

reek c (no plural)

1. smoke

Alternative forms

• riik

Further reading

• “reek”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011