areekとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /əˈɹiːk/
• 韻: -iːk

形容詞

areek (not comparable)

1. In a reeking condition; having a strong odour.

   The place was areek.

   • c. 1706, Jonathan Swift, To the Earl of Peterborow

     A messenger comes all a-reek
     Mordanto at Madrid to seek;
     He left the town above a week.

   • 1904, Jack London, chapter 7, in The Sea-Wolf, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, page 72:

     In the morning, Thomas Mugridge being duly bribed, the galley is pleasantly areek with the odor of their [the flying-fish] frying;