sleeken

English

Etymology

From sleek +‎ -en.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːkən

Verb

sleeken (third-person singular simple present sleekens, present participle sleekening, simple past and past participle sleekened)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become sleek.
   • 1897, William Morris, The Water of the Wondrous Isles:

     Now I have had my gird at thee, my servant, I must tell thee that in sooth it is not all for nothing that thou hast had these months of rest; for verily thou hast grown more of a woman thereby, and hast sleekened and rounded much.

   • 2000, Thomas A. Easton, Stones of Memory, page 11:

     He tried to imagine them sleekened and breasted, not just the daughters of peasants such as he had known when he was young and a peasant himself but succubi of the sort he had once resisted in the night, and he felt nothing.

Anagrams

• kneeles