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–verb (used with object)
to make sleek; smooth; slick:
to sleek leather.
Also,
sleeken.
Origin:
1400–50;
late ME
sleken,
var. of
slick
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Related forms:
sleeker,
noun
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sleek
(adj.)
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, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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