slick
/slɪk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.71 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
noun
A covering of liquid, particularly oil.
Example Sentences
- "This rain is making the roads slick."
- "The top coating of lacquer gives this finish a slick look."
- "His large round head was shaved slick."
- "my nipples got hard, and my cunt was slickwith juice."
- "Morning commuters in parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas discovered slick sidewalks and icy roadways Monday."
- "Both slick and dainty."
Etymology
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: slicke, slīc, *slīkaz, *sleyg-
Usage
- American usage
- Dated
- Slang
- Colloquial