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sleck.

Alternative form of slake.

5 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

verb
  1. Alternative form of slake.

    alt-of · alternative
  2. To slake; allay; cool; quench; extinguish.

    dialectal
  3. To groan when overloaded with food; sigh with repletion.

    Scotland
Where this word comes from

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”).

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