slee

slee (comparative sleer, superlative sleest)

1. (dialectal, chiefly Northern England and Scotland) Alternative form of sly.
   • 1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter VIII, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone):

     The beast of foot sings Holdfast only,
     For flesh is bruckle and foot is slee.
     Strength to the strong and the lordly and lonely,
     Timor Mortis Exultat Me.

• sele, lese, lees, EELS, Lees, eels, ELEs, Else, seel, l'ees, else

From Dutch slee.

slee (plural sleë)

1. sledge
2. sled, sleigh

• IPA^(key): /sleː/

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• Hyphenation: slee
• Rhymes: -eː

From older slede, from Middle Dutch slēde, from Old Dutch *slido, from Proto-Germanic *slidô.

slee f (plural sleeën, diminutive sleetje n)

1. sled, sleigh, wheelless vehicle which glides on land or ice
2. (colloquial) a large/prestigious car

   Synonym: bolide

• slede

• Afrikaans: slee
• → English: sleigh
• → Papiamentu: slede (dated, from slede)

From Middle Dutch sleeu, from Proto-West Germanic *slaihā, from Proto-Germanic *slaihǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₃y- (“bluish”); cognate to English sloe, and perhaps with Russian сли́ва (slíva, “plum”).

slee m (plural sleeën, diminutive sleetje n)

1. blackthorn (Prunus spinosa)

   Synonym: sleedoorn

2. sloe (fruit of the blackthorn, Prunus spinosa)

   Synonyms: sleedoorn, sleepruim

From Middle Dutch slêeu, from Old Dutch *slēw, from Proto-West Germanic *slaiw, from Proto-Germanic *slaiwaz. Cognate with obsolete German schleh, English slow, Swedish slö.

slee (comparative sleeër, superlative sleest)

1. stiff, cramped
2. blunt
3. sour

• sleeuw

• stroef
• bot, stomp
• wrang, zuur

• sleeuwig
• sleeuwigheid

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

slee

1. inflection of sleeën:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

• lees