sleeking
English edit
Verb edit
sleeking
- present participle and gerund of sleek
Noun edit
sleeking (plural sleekings)
- A process of making smooth or glossy.
- 1631, Shackerley Marmion, Holland's Leaguer:
- Wherefore are all your sleekings, and your curlings,
Crispings, and paintings, and your skin made soft,
And your face smooth with ointments […]
- 2009, William John Smith, The Behavior of Communicating: An Ethological Approach, page 66:
- Some inconspicuous fluffings and sleekings of its plumage may serve as visible displays, yet are sufficiently subtle that a human observer detects them only with difficulty […]