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areek

/əˈɹiːk/

areek adjective: in a reeking condition; having a strong odour.

Adjective

areek (not comparable)

  1. In a reeking condition; having a strong odour.
    • The place was areek.
    • A messenger comes all a-reek
      Mordanto at Madrid to seek;
      He left the town above a week.c. 1706, To the Earl of Peterborow, Jonathan Swift

Examples of areek in a sentence

  • In the morning, Thomas Mugridge being duly bribed, the galley is pleasantly areek with the odor of their [the flying-fish] frying;1904, Jack London, chapter 7, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 72:
  • Smoking shacks yellow with coal-oil light and areek with the sweetmold smell of splo whiskey.1965, Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper, New York: Vintage, published 1993, Part 1, p. 29:

Origin of areek

From a- + reek.

Words that rhyme with areek

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Questions about areek

What does areek mean?
Areek means in a reeking condition; having a strong odour.
How do you use areek in a sentence?
In the morning, Thomas Mugridge being duly bribed, the galley is pleasantly areek with the odor of their [the flying-fish] frying;
What part of speech is areek?
Areek is an adjective.
How do you pronounce areek?
Areek is pronounced /əˈɹiːk/.

Words near areek in the dictionary

  1. aredes
  2. areding
  3. AREDYLD
  4. areed
  5. Areegra
  6. areek
  7. areel
  8. areet
  9. arefaction
  10. arefactions
  11. arefied

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