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slim.

intelligent, bright

4 characters1 syllables approx.Nederlands language

Meaning & usage

adj/slɪm/
  1. intelligent, bright

  2. clever, smart

  3. wrong, incorrect, bad

    Dutch · Eastern · dialectal
Where this word comes from

From Middle Dutch slim, slem, slimp, slemp, from Old Dutch *slimb, from Proto-West Germanic *slimb, from Proto-Germanic *slimbaz (“oblique, crooked”), compare German schlimm (“bad”), English slim. The semantic development in Dutch was “physically crooked” → “morally crooked” → “sly, artful” → “clever, intelligent”.

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