different between keek vs reek
keek
English
Etymology
From Middle English kyken, kiken, keken (“to look, peep”), probably from Middle Dutch kiken, kieken or Middle Low German kîken (“to look, peep”), from Old Saxon *k?kan (“to look”), from Proto-Germanic *k?kan? (“to look”). Cognate with Dutch kijken (“to look”), German Low German kieken (“to look”), Estonian kiikama (“to look, to peek”), German kucken, gucken (“to look”), Danish kigge, kikke (“to look, peep”), Swedish kika (“to peep, peek, keek, pry”), Icelandic kíkja (“to look, check”). Perhaps related to kick.
The words peek, keek and peep were used more or less synonymously in the 14th and 15th centuries.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ki?k/
- Rhymes: -i?k
Verb
keek (third-person singular simple present keeks, present participle keeking, simple past and past participle keeked)
- To peek; peep.
- The man keeked over the fence.
Noun
keek (plural keeks)
- A look, especially a quick one; a peek.
- She had a keek at the boy seated behind her who was busily writing something.
Related terms
- look
- peek
- peep
References
- “keek” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “keek”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Basque
Noun
keek
- ergative plural of ke
Cornish
Adjective
keek
- hedged
References
- http://www.cornishdictionary.org.uk/
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -e?k
- IPA(key): /ke?k/
Verb
keek
- singular past indicative of kijken
Anagrams
- keke
Scots
Etymology 1
From Middle Scots keik (“to peep”), from Middle English kiken, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *k?kan via a borrowing. Cognate with English keek.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?kik]
Verb
keek (third-person singular present keeks, present participle keekin, past keeked, past participle keeked)
- To have a quick look or peek.
- To tilt or lean back.
Related terms
- keeker: a black eye
Noun
keek (plural keeks)
- A quick look or peek.
Etymology 2
Uncertain. Possibly from the verb, due to the difficulty to see sideways from the cap.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?kik]
Noun
keek (plural keeks)
- A cap made of linen worn around the head and neck.
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reek
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: r?k, IPA(key): /ri?k/
- Rhymes: -i?k
- Homophone: wreak
Etymology 1
From Middle English rek, reke (“smoke”), from Old English r?c, r?ec, from Proto-West Germanic *rauki, from Proto-Germanic *raukiz (compare West Frisian reek, riik, Dutch rook, Low German Röök, German Rauch, Danish røg, Norwegian Bokmål røyk), from Proto-Indo-European *rowgi- (compare Lithuanian r??kti (“to smoke”), r??kas (“smoke, fog”), Albanian regj (“to tan”)).
Noun
reek (countable and uncountable, plural reeks)
- A strong unpleasant smell.
- (Scotland) Vapour; steam; smoke; fume.
- 1623, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor
- 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.
- Thou mightst as well say, I loue to walke by the
- 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.
- 1623, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English reken (“to smoke”), from Old English r?ocan, from Proto-Germanic *reukan? (compare Dutch ruiken, Low German rüken, German riechen, Danish ryge, Swedish ryka), from Proto-Indo-European *rougi-. See above.
Verb
reek (third-person singular simple present reeks, present participle reeking, simple past and past participle reeked)
- (intransitive) To have or give off a strong, unpleasant smell.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be evidently associated with something unpleasant.
- (archaic, intransitive) To be emitted or exhaled, emanate, as of vapour or perfume.
- (archaic, intransitive) To emit smoke or vapour; to steam.
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)
- (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, [2]
- Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN
- Notes:
Anagrams
- kere
Scots
Etymology
From Middle English rek, reke (“smoke”), from Old English r?c, r?ec, from Proto-West Germanic *rauki, from Proto-Germanic *raukiz.
Noun
reek (plural reeks)
- Vapour; steam; smoke; fume
- A morning mist rising out of the ground.
- The act of smoking a pipe or cigarette, a whiff, puff.
Verb
reek (third-person singular present reeks, present participle reekin, past reekt, past participle reekt)
- Of a chimney: to emit smoke, to fail to emit smoke properly, sending it back into the room.
- To smoke a pipe etc. To emit vapour or steam.
- To show anger or fury, to fume, pour out one's spleen.
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian r?k, from Proto-West Germanic *rauki, from Proto-Germanic *raukiz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /re?k/
Noun
reek c (no plural)
- smoke
Alternative forms
- riik
Further reading
- “reek”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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