areek

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

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

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

1904, Jack London, chapter 7, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 72

Smoking shacks yellow with coal-oil light and areek with the sweetmold smell of splo whiskey.

1965, Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper, New York: Vintage, published 1993, Part 1, p. 29