slick
English
/slɪk/
adj
Definitions
- Slippery or smooth due to a covering of liquid; often used to describe appearances.
- Appearing expensive or sophisticated.
- Superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy.
- (often used sarcastically) Clever, making an apparently hard task easy.
- (US) Extraordinarily great or special.
- sleek; smooth
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English slicke inherited from Old English slīc (smooth, sleek, cunning, slick, crafty) inherited from Proto-Germanic *slīkaz (sleek, smooth) derived from Proto-Indo-European *sleyg- (be slick, slip, slide).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*sleyg-
Gloss
be slick, slip, slide
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- em English
- head English
- outslick English
- rock English
- slickem English
- slicken English
- slickhead English
- slickly English
- slickness English
- slickrock English
- slickster English
- slickwater English
- slight English
- slighten English
- slighter English
- slighteth English
- slightful English
- slightish English
- slightly English
- slightness English
- slightsome English
- superslick English
- ultraslick English
- unslick English
- water English
- *sleyg- Proto-Indo-European
- slik Norwegian Bokmål
- *slīkaną Proto-Germanic
- *slīkaz Proto-Germanic
- *slīką Proto-Germanic
- *swalīkaz Proto-Germanic
- slik Norwegian Nynorsk
- slīc Old English
- slicke Middle English
- slight Middle English
- slíkr Old Norse
- slig Danish
- slíkur Icelandic
- slíkur Faroese
- *lika Proto-Finnic
- slīker Old Swedish
- slekken Westrobothnian
- slikkän Westrobothnian
- slaik Elfdalian