Meaning
- intelligent, bright
- clever, smart
- (Dutch, Eastern, dialectal) wrong, incorrect, bad
Concepts
Synonyms
pienter
niet van pas komend
Translations
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/slɪm/
Etymology
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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