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SLEEKY

Definition: SLEEKY

SLEEKY

Adjective

1. Fawning and deceitful; sly.

2. Of a sleek, or smooth, and glossy appearance.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Modern Translation: SLEEKY

Language Translations for "SLEEKY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i lëmuar (ganoid, glace, glib, highbred, nice, polished, polite, refined, sleek, sleeken, slick, smooth, smooth-faced, soft, unruffled, waxy, well mannered), dinak (argute, artful, canny, crafty, cunning, daedalian, devious, furtive, leery, pawky, sly, wily), dhelparak (cunning, foxy, sly, slyboots). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κολακευτικόσ (adulatory, buttery, complimentary, flattering), ομιλητικόσ (chatty, communicative, conversational, homiletic, sociable, talkative, vocal). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eekyslay

   

Portuguese

  

suave (bland, creamy, delicate, douceur, dowry, dulcify, easy, facile, genial, gentle, glib, lambkin, lamblike, lenient, meekness, mellifluous, mellow, mild, piano key, placard, pleasantly, silken, sleek, smooth, soft, soft spoken, suave, sweet, tender), polido (attentive, cleanly cut, courtly, gentle, glossy, mannerly, neat, net, polished, polite, precise, shiny, sleek, smooth, specular, urbane, well bred, well spoken), macio (cottony, creamy, cushiony, downy, fleecy, fluffy, gentle, lithesome, mellow, sleek, slick, smooth, soft, tender), lustroso (beady, glacial, glazed brick, glazy, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shiny, silken, silky, sleek, slick, smooth, spick and span, splendent), liso (event, flat, glossy surface, hardware, lanky, level, plain, plane, sleek, slick, smooth, unruffled). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

гладкий (clean, even, glace, glassy, glib, lank, level, lubricous, sleek, sleeken, slick, smooth, unruffled). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

mek (gentle, soft, tender), lukav (arch, artful, astute, cagey, cagy, canny, captious, crafty, cunning, designing, insidious, leery, perfidious, shrewd, sly, tricky, vulpine, wily), gladak (even, fine, glib, level, napless, slick, smooth). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

astuto (artful, astute, cannie, canny, clever, colic, crafty, cunning, deep, devious, dodgy, foxy, guileful, insidious, knowing, leery, malicious, mischievous, nasty, pawky, politic, sharp, shifty, slick, sly, smart, tricky, vicious, wide, wily, worldly wise), alisado (facing, finish, making good, sleeking, slicking, smoothing, trimming). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

улесливий (adulatory, bland, candied, fawning, honeyed, obsequious, oily, silky, suave, wheedling), гладенький (smooth). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SLEEKY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-k-l-s-y"

-1 letter: keels, leeks, seely, sleek, yelks.

-2 letters: eels, eely, ekes, elks, else, eyes, keel, keys, leek, lees, leke, leks, leys, lyes, lyse, seek, seel, skee, syke, yelk.

-3 letters: eel, eke, elk, els, eye, key, lee, lek, ley, lye, see, sel, sky, sly, yes.

-4 letters: el, es, ye.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-k-l-s-y"
 

+1 letter: keyless, sleekly.

 

+2 letters: eyestalk, keyholes, yokeless.

 

+3 letters: berserkly, eyestalks, yarmelkes.

 

+4 letters: fecklessly, flyspecked, leukocytes, newsweekly, recklessly, semiweekly, skeletally.

 

+5 letters: honeysuckle, yokefellows.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SLEEKY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 4C 45 45 4B 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    .-..    .    .    -.-    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01001100 01000101 01000101 01001011 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#76 &#69 &#69 &#75 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 004C 0045 0045 004B 0059

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

534639394559

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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