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sleck

sleck verb: to slake; allay; cool; quench; extinguish. Also the alternative form of slake.

Verb

sleck (third-person singular simple present slecks, present participle slecking, simple past and past participle slecked)

  1. (dialectal) To slake; allay; cool; quench; extinguish.
  2. (Scotland) To groan when overloaded with food; sigh with repletion.

Also used as

sleck is also the alternative form of slake.

Forms of sleck

third-person singular presentslecks
present participleslecking
past participleslecked
pastslecked
alternative formslekk

Origin of sleck

From Middle English slecken, slekken, from Old Norse slekkja, sløkkva (“to extinguish, quench, slake”), from Proto-Germanic *slakjaną, *slakwijaną (“to slake”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lēg- (“weak, faint, limp”). Cognate with Old English sleċċan, slæċċan (“to make slack or slow, delay”).

Questions about sleck

What does sleck mean?
Sleck means to slake; allay; cool; quench; extinguish.
What part of speech is sleck?
Sleck is a verb.
What is the past tense of sleck?
The past tense of sleck is slecked.

Words near sleck in the dictionary

  1. sleboggan
  2. sleboggans
  3. slebs
  4. Slechta
  5. Slechtas
  6. sleck
  7. sled
  8. sled dog
  9. sled dogs
  10. sled head
  11. sled heads

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