slicker

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈslɪkə/    美 /ˈslɪkɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who or that which slicks.
  2. A waterproof coat or jacket. US
  3. A person who is perceived as clever, urbane and possibly disreputable. (abbreviation of city slicker.)
  4. A swindler or conman. slang
  5. A symmetrical knife with a handle at each end, used for burnishing leather.
  6. A curved tool for smoothing the surfaces of a mould after the withdrawal of the pattern.
  7. A two-handled tool for finishing concrete or mortar; a darby.
  8. Synonym of slicker brush
    — There are numerous grooming products on the market, particularly for longhaired cats – for example, rakes, slickers and detangle sprays, many of which claim to make grooming as simple and safe as possible.
动词 v.
  1. To slither, as on a slick surface.
    — My good lady wife invited many and often her friends to a dish of cauliflower cooked as it ought to be and finely seasoned, and you ought to see how they slickered their tongues; it looked like appetite all over their faces.
  2. To con or hoodwink.
    — I knew he had been slickered again.
  3. To use a slicker on.
    — ...carbon bisulphide, chloride of sulphur and sulphur precipitating substances, the surplus rubber adhering to the hide being then slickered off and finished with a cloth dipped in a rubber solvent.
  4. To smooth or slick.
    — Anyway, to make a long story short, here was this young kin of mine dressed in a white shirt and shoes and pale blue shorts standin' there with his hair slickered down, starin' at me.
  5. To spread mashed manure on fields as a form of fertilization.
形容词 adj.
  1. comparative form of slick: more slick comparative,form-of

词形变化

slickers plural slickers present,singular,third-person slickering participle,present slickered participle,past slickered past

词汇关系

衍生词
rainslicker
相关词
city slicker

词源

词源 1
From the adjective slick.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English slick
English -er
English slicker
From slick (“to smooth or make slick”) + -er.
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