English Explanatory Dictionary

sleck

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. Alternative form of slake.
  2. To slake; allay; cool; quench; extinguish.
  3. To groan when overloaded with food; sigh with repletion.

Word forms

sleck slecks slecking slecked slekk

Etymology

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”).

Related words

slecken sletch
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