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Sleeken

[sleek] Origin

sleek

2[sleek]
verb (used with object)
to make sleek; smooth; slick: to sleek leather.
Also, sleek·en.


Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English sleken, variant of slick2

sleek·er, noun
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Sleeken is always a great word to know.
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a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Word Origin & History

sleek
1589, variant of M.E. slike (see slick). Originally of healthy-looking animal hair; applied to persons 1637, with sense of "plump and smooth-skinned."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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