areek

English

Etymology

From a- +‎ reek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈɹiːk/
• Rhymes: -iːk

Adjective

areek (not comparable)

1. In a reeking condition; having a strong odour.

   The place was areek.

   • c. 1706, To the Earl of Peterborow, Jonathan Swift:

     A messenger comes all a-reek
     Mordanto at Madrid to seek;
     He left the town above a week.

   • 1904, Jack London, chapter 7, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 72:

     In the morning, Thomas Mugridge being duly bribed, the galley is pleasantly areek with the odor of their [the flying-fish] frying;

   • 1965, Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper‎^[1], New York: Vintage, published 1993, Part 1, p. 29:

     Smoking shacks yellow with coal-oil light and areek with the sweetmold smell of splo whiskey.

Anagrams

• Eaker, karee, rakee