Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Sleeked; having smooth hair or a sleek skin.
- Figuratively, smooth and plausible; deceitful; sly; cunning.
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- adjective Scotland
Specious ,flattering ;cunning .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"We have a word in Scotland called 'sleekit' and they were being sleekit, they were doing it in a sleekit way to get in."
Epolitix News 2009
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RE a previous post – ‘sleekit’ is a Scots word meaning sly, shifty, conniving, devious etc.
Police Search Too Few White People SHOCK!! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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Very nicely done and the horrible sleekit wee beasty should be put out to pasture asap for the sake of our country's economic and fiscal wellbeing.
Cartoon: Martin Rowson on George Osborne's bright, progressive new dawn 2011
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And that cunning man – "sleekit" is a good Scottish word for him – must know that in his heart.
Let Scotland be a sovereign, mature nation and England benefits too | Neal Ascherson 2012
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Yes, I have wrestled back control of this blog from my pernicious Id and sleekit wee nyaff of a Self, sanity is restored, and all is well with the world.
Whew! Hal Duncan 2006
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Yes, I have wrestled back control of this blog from my pernicious Id and sleekit wee nyaff of a Self, sanity is restored, and all is well with the world.
Archive 2006-05-01 Hal Duncan 2006
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A sleekit character with a reconstructed nose, no hair, paramilitary tattoos.
The Bloomsday Dead Adrian McKinty 2007
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“Morning,” one of them shouted across the street to me, with no love at all in the greeting and sleekit peeler eyes.
The Bloomsday Dead Adrian McKinty 2007
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Even more confused, and his grin now rictus-like, the PM moves onto the next patient, who immediately begins to chant: Wee sleekit, cowerin, timorous beasty
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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There are mice like Robert Burns described, a "wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie."
Faces Of The Week: Apr. 3-7, 2006 Forbes.com staff 2006
sonofgroucho commented on the word sleekit
Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie,
O, what a panic's in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty
Wi bickering brattle!
I wad be laith to rin an' chase thee,
Wi' murdering pattle.
I'm truly sorry man's dominion
Has broken Nature's social union,
An' justifies that ill opinion
Which makes thee startle
At me, thy poor, earth born companion
An' fellow mortal!
I doubt na, whyles, but thou may thieve;
What then? poor beastie, thou maun live!
A daimen icker in a thrave
'S a sma' request;
I'll get a blessin wi' the lave,
An' never miss't.
Thy wee-bit housie, too, in ruin!
It's silly wa's the win's are strewin!
An' naething, now, to big a new ane,
O' foggage green!
An' bleak December's win's ensuin,
Baith snell an' keen!
Thou saw the fields laid bare an' waste,
An' weary winter comin fast,
An' cozie here, beneath the blast,
Thou thought to dwell,
Till crash! the cruel coulter past
Out thro' thy cell.
That wee bit heap o' leaves an' stibble,
Has cost thee monie a weary nibble!
Now thou's turned out, for a' thy trouble,
But house or hald,
To thole the winter's sleety dribble,
An' cranreuch cauld.
But Mousie, thou art no thy lane,
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best laid schemes o' mice an' men
Gang aft agley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,
For promis'd joy!
Still thou are blest, compared wi' me!
The present only toucheth thee:
But och! I backward cast my e'e,
On prospects drear!
An' forward, tho' I canna see,
I guess an' fear!
October 4, 2007
reesetee commented on the word sleekit
Lovely, SoG.
October 4, 2007
qms commented on the word sleekit
Though Ernest at home is a meek twit,
There's joy on the road and he seeks it.
He's transformed in the bars -
Becomes one of the stars,
Mysterious, dashing and sleekit!
Find out more about Ernest Bafflewit
June 24, 2014