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. (UK, dialect) sleek; smooth

Anagrams

• Nickels, Nickles, 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