Meanings (ES + gloss)
fetidez • hedor • peste • tufo
A strong unpleasant smell.
emanación • vaho • vapor
Vapour; steam; smoke; fume.
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…
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.
Phrases
Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
apestar • cantar • heder • oler mal
To have or give off a strong, unpleasant smell.
You reek of perfume.
Your fridge reeks of egg.
apestar • dar asco
To be evidently associated with something unpleasant.
The boss appointing his nephew as a director reeks of nepotism.