slicken

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪkən

Etymology 1

From slick +‎ -en.

Verb

slicken (third-person singular simple present slickens, present participle slickening, simple past and past participle slickened)

1. (transitive) To make slick.
   • 2001, Nora Roberts, Hidden Star:

     Sweat dewed her skin, slickening it.

Derived terms

• rain-slickened
• water-slickened

Etymology 2

Adjective

slicken (comparative more slicken, superlative most slicken)

1. (mining and UK dialect) Sleek; smooth.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:slicken.

Related terms

• slickens

Anagrams

• nickles, nickels, Lesnick, Nickels, Nickles, snickle

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *slikkon, from Proto-Germanic *slikkōną, from Proto-Indo-European *leyǵʰ- (“to lick”).

Verb

slicken

1. to swallow

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: slikken
• Limburgish: slikke

Further reading

• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “slicken (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II