different between slicker vs slicken

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?k?(?)

Etymology 1

From the adjective slick.

Adjective

slicker

1. comparative form of slick: more slick

Etymology 2

From slick (“to smooth or make slick”) +? -er.

Noun

slicker (plural slickers)

1. One who or that which slicks.
2. (originally Canada, US) A waterproof coat or jacket.
3. A person who is perceived as clever, urbane and possibly disreputable. (abbreviation of city slicker.)
4. (slang) A swindler or conman.
5. A symmetrical knife with a handle at each end, used for burnishing leather.
6. (metalworking) A curved tool for smoothing the surfaces of a mould after the withdrawal of the pattern.
7. A two-handled tool for finishing concrete or mortar; a darby.
8. A brush for grooming a cat and removing loose fur.
   • 2009, Vicky Halls, The Complete Cat (page 225)

     There are numerous grooming products on the market, particularly for longhaired cats – for example, rakes, slickers and detangle sprays, many of which claim to make grooming as simple and safe as possible.

Synonyms

• (waterproof coat or jacket): poncho

Verb

slicker (third-person singular simple present slickers, present participle slickering, simple past and past participle slickered)

1. To slither, as on a slick surface.
2. To con or hoodwink.
3. To use a slicker on.
4. To smooth or slick.
5. To spread mashed manure on fields as a form of fertilization.

See also

• city slicker

Anagrams

• Rickels, Sickler, lickers, relicks, rickles, sickler

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?k?n

Etymology 1

From slick +? -en.

Verb

slicken (third-person singular simple present slickens, present participle slickening, simple past and past participle slickened)

1. (transitive) To make slick.

Derived terms

• rain-slickened
• water-slickened

Etymology 2

Adjective

slicken (comparative more slicken, superlative most slicken)

1. (Britain, dialect) sleek; smooth

Anagrams

• Nickels, Nickles, nickels, nickles, snickle

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *slikkon, from Proto-Germanic *slikk?n?, from Proto-Indo-European *ley??- (“to lick”).

Verb

slicken

1. to swallow

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: slikken
• Limburgish: slikke

Further reading

• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “slicken (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page II