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English
Etymology
From a- + reek.
Pronunciation
Adjective
areek (not comparable)
- In a reeking condition; having a strong odour.
The place was areek.
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, 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.
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