reekage

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

reek +‎ -age

Noun[edit]

reekage (uncountable)

  1. Foul-smelling matter; material that reeks.
    • 1876, Lory Marsh, Handbook of Rural Sanitary Science, page 69:
      The Sankey brook is described as receiving the reekage from huge heaps of waste, and as, in fact, a sewer containing sulphur running down considerably more yellow than amber.
    • 1888, Journal of the Royal Sanitary Institute - Volume 9, page 205:
      Dr. F. M. Corner (Poplar) said that according to his experience, which was not great with regard to typhus, it had been due to the habits of the people ; certain families would live like pigs, and everything would get into a shocking condition with animal reekage.
    • 1968, Hugh Anderson, Bernard O'Dowd - Volume 36, page 61:
      Open the road and save our seed From reekage of the slums!
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