reek

A strong unpleasant smell.

Vapour; steam; smoke; fume.

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.

To have or give off a strong, unpleasant smell.

You reek of perfume.

Your fridge reeks of egg.

To be evidently associated with something unpleasant.

The boss appointing his nephew as a director reeks of nepotism.

To be emitted or exhaled, emanate, as of vapour or perfume.

To emit smoke or vapour; to steam.

[…] innumerable Legions of his Angels of Light, the warm gleames of whose presence is able to make the Mountains to reek and smoak, and to awake that fiery principle that lies dormient in the Earth into a devouring flame.

To cause (something) to smell.

The slaughter of lambs in offering reeked the fore-courts of the Temple.

[I]f we get caught we're for the gibbet and the chains. Our flesh will reek the wind.

A pile, a heap (as of snow, hay, etc).

The fen "dikes" have been filled-in in some districts; and the black reeks remind one of snow-reeks, except for their blackness.

"There'll be snow-reeks as high as houses if I wait half-an-hour longer." "There'll be no occasion for ye to wade thruff snaw-reeks at all, if ye'll go wi' me. I'll tak ye across th' warpin' till ye get to the sand-lane end, […]