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What is the difference between reek and Tagalog?

reek | Tagalog |

As nouns the difference between reek and Tagalog

is that reek is a strong unpleasant smell while Tagalog is a member of the second largest Filipino ethnic group.

As a verb reek

is to be emitted or exhaled, emanate, as of vapour or perfume.

As a proper noun Tagalog is

a language spoken in the Philippines, in particular, Metro Manila and its surrounding provinces such as Bulacan, Laguna, Cavite, Batangas, Bataan, Rizal, Marinduque, Mindoro, and Quezon.

As an adjective Tagalog is

of or relating to the Tagalogs.

reek

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) rek, ‘smoke, fog’, Albanian regj ‘to tan’).Vladimir Orel, A Handbook of Germanic Etymology , s.vv. “*raukiz”, “*reukanan”(Leiden: Brill, 2003), 299:303.

Noun

(-)
  • A strong unpleasant smell.
  • Vapor; steam; smoke; fume.
  • * Shakespeare
    • As hateful to me as the reek of a limekiln.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) reken ‘to smoke’, from (etyl) . See above.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To be emitted or exhaled, emanate, as of vapour or perfume.
  • To have or give off a strong, unpleasant smell.
    • You reek of perfume.
    Your fridge reeks of egg.
  • (figuratively) To be evidently associated with something unpleasant.
    • The boss appointing his nephew as a director reeks of nepotism.

    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

    (s)
  • (Ireland) A hill; a mountain.

    • References

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    Anagrams

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    Tagalog

    English

    (wikipedia Tagalog)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A language spoken in the Philippines, in particular, Metro Manila and its surrounding provinces such as Bulacan, Laguna, Cavite, Batangas, Bataan, Rizal, Marinduque, Mindoro, and Quezon.

    • Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A member of the second largest Filipino ethnic group.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or relating to the Tagalogs.

    • See also

    * * (tl) * Language list

    External links

    * * Tagalog - English Dictionary ----