slick

Bedeutung (Englisch)

Adj

1. Slippery or smooth due to a covering of liquid; often used to describe appearances.
2. Sleek; smooth.
3. Appearing expensive or sophisticated.
4. Superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy.
5. (often, sarcastic) Clever, making an apparently hard task look easy.
6. (US) Extraordinarily great or special.

Noun

1. A covering of liquid, particularly oil.
2. (US, broadly, dated) A rapidly-expanding ring of dark water, resembling an oil slick, around the site of a large underwater explosion at shallow depth, marking the progress through the water of the shock wave generated by the explosion.
3. Someone who is clever and untrustworthy.
4. A tool used to make something smooth or even.
5. A tire with a smooth surface instead of a tread pattern, often used in auto racing.
6. (US, slang) A helicopter.
7. A camera-ready image to be used by a printer. The "slick" is photographed to produce a negative image which is then used to burn a positive offset plate or other printing device.
8. (slang) A glossy magazine.
9. A wide paring chisel used in joinery.
10. (slang) In omegaverse fiction, the copious, lubricating bodily fluid produced by an omega in heat.
11. (slang) A silver coin that has been worn to the point its surface feels smooth to the touch.

Verb

To make slick.

Adv

Alternative form of sleek (“with ease and dexterity”).

Noun

Alternative form of schlich.

Konzepte

schlau

aalglatt

polieren

glatt

glitschig

poliert

raffiniert

Slick

glattweg

routiniert

Ölteppich

geleckt

gerissen

glänzend

glanzvoll

schlüpfrige Art

abgefahren

gekonnt

Synonyme

slippery

smooth

sleek

glossy

cunning

sly

crafty

silky

tricky

dexterous

viscous

glib

slipperiness

adroit

slip

great at

slick magazine

silklike

wily

sleek down

knavish

slither

tricksy

elusive

dodgy

evasive

slithery

slicker

dextrous

slick down

slickness

skilful

shrewd

silken

skillful

deft

pat

foxy

oily

guileful

handy

bright

satiny

smart

float

flirtatious

flip

ferryboat

crisp

beaked

Übersetzungen

glissant

rusé

lucidare

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astuto

alisar

glad

lubricus

soyeux

scivoloso

poli

allisar

brunire

sdrucciolevole

esmunyedís

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/slɪk/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Geerbt von Mittelenglisch: slicke

Geerbt von Altenglisch: slīc

Verwandt mit Niederländisch: sluik

Verwandt mit Niederländisch: sleek

Verwandt mit Altnordisch: slíkr

Verwandt mit Altenglisch: slician

In summary

From Middle English slicke, slike, slyke, from Old English slīc (“sleek, smooth; crafty, cunning, slick”), from Proto-Germanic *slīkaz (“sleek, smooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyg-, *sleyǵ- (“to glide, smooth, spread”).
Akin to Dutch sluik, dialectal Dutch sleek (“even, smooth”), Old Norse slíkr (“sleek, smooth”), Old English slician (“to make sleek, smooth, or glossy”).