slick

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

glissant

rusé

sournois

soyeux

lisse

poli

fleuri

fluide

glabre

glissante

habile

imberbe

lisser

luisant

malin

matois

nappe

perfide

plat

sans à-coup

sans anicroche

sans aspérité

souple

glissant comme une anguille

roublard

visqueux

artificieux

slick

astucieux

coulant

égal

espiègle

flatteur

Synonymes

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

Traductions

schlau

glad

lucidare

🇵🇱

aalglatt

astuto

alisar

routiniert

glattweg

scivoloso

polieren

Slick

allisar

poliert

esmunyedís

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/slɪk/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: slicke

Hérité de ancien anglais: slīc

Appartenant à néerlandais: sluik

Appartenant à néerlandais: sleek

Appartenant à vieux norrois: slíkr

Appartenant à ancien anglais: 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”).