slick

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

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.

Έννοιες

ακριβώς

λειαίνω

λείος

επιδέξιος

επιτήδειος

εύγλωτος

ολισθηρός

σπάτουλα

Συνώνυμα

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

Μεταφράσεις

glissant

rusé

schlau

alisar

astuto

glad

aalglatt

lucidare

🇵🇱

routiniert

Slick

glattweg

lisse

polieren

allisar

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/slɪk/

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

Κληρονομήθηκε από Μέσα Αγγλικά: slicke

Κληρονομήθηκε από Παλαιά Αγγλικά: slīc

Συγγενές με Ολλανδικά: sluik

Συγγενές με Ολλανδικά: sleek

Συγγενές με Παλαιά Νορβηγικά: slíkr

Συγγενές με Παλαιά Αγγλικά: 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”).