slick
Значение
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- Slippery or smooth due to a covering of liquid; often used to describe appearances.
- Sleek; smooth.
- Appearing expensive or sophisticated.
- Superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy.
- Clever, making an apparently hard task easy.
- Extraordinarily great or special.
Частота
Произносится как (IPA)
/slɪk/
Этимология
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”).
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