slim

Phrases
An user
Wat   kunnen   we   slim   bereiken ?

Que pouvons-nous réaliser intelligemment?

Signification (Anglais)

  1. intelligent, bright
  2. clever, smart
  3. (Dutch, Eastern, dialectal) wrong, incorrect, bad

Fréquence

A2
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/slɪm/
Étymologie (Anglais)

In summary

From Middle Dutch slim, slem, slimp, slemp, from Old Dutch *slimb, from Proto-West Germanic *slimb, from Proto-Germanic *slimbaz (“oblique, crooked”), compare German schlimm (“bad”), English slim. The semantic development in Dutch was “physically crooked” → “morally crooked” → “sly, artful” → “clever, intelligent”.

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