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"text": "Those rugged names to our like mouths grow sleek.",
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"Not rough or harsh."
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"word": "civilized"
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"word": "classy"
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"word": "graceful"
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"word": "glatigar"
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"word": "slíoc"
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},
"expansion": "Dutch slijk (“mud, slime”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "slink"
},
"expansion": "slink",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "A late variant of slick; cognate to German schleichen (Old High German slihhan) and Dutch slijk (“mud, slime”). Compare slink.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "sleek (uncountable)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"That which makes smooth; varnish."
],
"links": [
[
"smooth",
"smooth"
],
[
"varnish",
"varnish"
]
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/sliːk/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːk"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sleek.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/13/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-sleek.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-sleek.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/13/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-sleek.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-sleek.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "that which makes smooth; varnish",
"word": "kiillotusaine"
}
],
"word": "sleek"
}
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