different between reek vs reem

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)

1. A strong unpleasant smell.
2. (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.

   • 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.

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)

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.

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, [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)

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 present reeks, present participle reekin, 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 r?k, from Proto-West Germanic *rauki, from Proto-Germanic *raukiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re?k/

Noun

reek c (no plural)

1. smoke

Alternative forms

• riik

Further reading

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

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?i?m/, /????m/
• Rhymes: -i?m

Etymology 1

From Biblical Hebrew ?????? (r'em).

Noun

reem (plural reems)

1. A large horned animal in ancient Hebrew literature, variously identified with the wild ox or aurochs (Bos primigenius), the Arabian oryx, or a mythical creature (compare unicorn).

Translations

Etymology 2

Compare ream (“to make a hole in”).

Verb

reem (third-person singular simple present reems, present participle reeming, simple past and past participle reemed)

1. (transitive, nautical) To open (the seams of a vessel's planking) for the purpose of calking them.

Etymology 3

Of unclear origins, popularised by Joey Essex. Possibly derived from cream or ream.

Adjective

reem (comparative reemer or more reem, superlative reemest or most reem)

1. (Britain, chiefly Essex, slang) cool, excellent; desirable; sexy.
   • 2011 June 13, Julie McCaffrey, "Forget a suntan, fake it, safely bake or soothe it", The Mirror:

     The cast of The Only Way Is Essex have tried every fake tan in the universe and insist this is best before a reem night out.

   • 2012, Becci Fox, Confessions of an Essex Girl: A Smart, Sexy and Scandalously Funny Expose, Pan Macmillan ?ISBN

     Imagine a totally reem Hogwarts where Harry Potter looks like he should be in a Wham! video while Hermione's always on her pink BlackBerry and trying to catch Ron's attention by rolling up her skirt higher and higher.

   • 2014, Joey Essex, Being Reem, Hachette UK ?ISBN

     Room service: The reemest way to get food! […] The party royal is the most reem though because he goes to Vegas.

References

Anagrams

• -mere, Emer., Mere, REME, erme, meer, mere

Middle English

Noun

reem

1. Alternative form of reme (“ream”)

Yola

Alternative forms

• rhyme

Etymology

From Middle English reme (“cream”).

Noun

reem

1. cream

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN