different between slock vs sleck

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sl?k/

Etymology 1

Cognate with German Schluck (“a draught; a gulp”), Dutch slok (“a draught; a gulp”).

Noun

slock (plural slocks)

1. (Scotland, Northern England) A draught; a gulp.

Verb

slock (third-person singular simple present slocks, present participle slocking, simple past and past participle slocked)

1. (Scotland, Northern England) To swallow, gulp.

References

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Etymology 2

Blend of sock +? lock

Noun

slock (plural slocks)

1. An improvised weapon consisting of a padlock placed in a sock, common in prison environments.

Anagrams

• KLOCs, KSLOC, Klocs, locks

English

Alternative forms

• slekk

Etymology

From Middle English slecken, slekken, from Old Norse slekkja, sløkkva (“to extinguish, quench, slake”), from Proto-Germanic *slakjan?, *slakwijan? (“to slake”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)l?g- (“weak, faint, limp”). Cognate with Old English sle??an, slæ??an (“to make slack or slow, delay”).

Verb

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

1. Alternative form of slake

   to sleck lime

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

Related terms

• slecken
• sletch