different between yeek vs reek

English

Etymology

Imitative.

Interjection

yeek

1. eek; the sound of a mouse.
2. eek; an exclamation of terror.

Anagrams

• yeke

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