Definition of Sleeky

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

Definition of Sleeky

1. Adjective. sleek, slick ¹

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Definition of Sleeky

1. sleek [adj SLEEKIER, SLEEKIEST] - See also: sleek

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sleeky

sleekened
sleekening
sleekens
sleeker
sleekers
sleekest
sleekier
sleekiest
sleeking
sleekings
sleekit
sleekly
sleekness
sleeknesses
sleeks
sleeky (current term)
sleep
sleep-at-noon
sleep-debt
sleep-induced apnea
sleep-learning
sleep apnea
sleep apnea syndrome
sleep apnea syndromes
sleep apnoea
sleep debt
sleep deprivation
sleep disorder
sleep disorders

Literary usage of Sleeky

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Continental Traveller's Oracle; Or, Maxims for Foreign Locomotion by Thomas Wyse (1828)
"... upon the concentrated and meditative air, the round and sleeky back, the velvety paws, gathered soberly within each other, and the eyes, now would sell ..."

2. John Cheap the Chapman's Library: The Scottish Chap Literature of Last by John Cheap, Dougal Graham (1877)
"Aye, een do sae, said sleeky Willie, and bring a soup to me too. Away then John goes to the amry, and lays to the haggis, till his am haggis could naud nae ..."

3. "Drifting About"; Or, What "Jeems Pipes, of Pipesville," Saw-and-did. An by Stephen C. Massett (1863)
"sleeky Jack—Now, then, jest year me speak, an' ill up and tell you. ... sleeky Jack—Why, Tim Brown axed me how he'd go —trot him out, ..."

4. "Drifting About"; Or, What "Jeems Pipes, of Pipesville," Saw-and-did. An by Stephen C. Massett (1863)
"sleeky Jack—Now, then, jest year me speak, an' ill up and tell you. ... sleeky Jack—Why, Tim Brown axed me how he'd go —trot him out, says I—and werry well ..."

5. The Collected Writings of Dougal Graham, "Skellat" Bellman of Glasgow by Dougal Graham (1883)
"Hame he comes, and tells his mither the speed and properties of the marriage ; a' things was got ready, and next week sleeky Willy the weaver and him came ..."

6. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"Of or belonging to sleet ; as, a sleeky day, a day in which there falls a ... sleeky Tain possesses both his own and his neighbour's farm at this day. ..."

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