Terms vs Sleeky - What's the difference?
terms | sleeky |
sleek, slick
*{{quote-book, year=1790, author=Joanna Baillie, title=Poems, &c. (1790), chapter=, edition=
, passage=When all is o'er, out to the door they run, With new comb'd sleeky hair, and glist'ning cheeks, Each with some little project in his head. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1841, author=Various, title=Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, September 5, 1841, chapter=, edition=
, passage=He thought that the moulting season was over, and that he was rejoicing in the fulness of a sleeky plumage, and by his side was a Java sparrowess, chirping and hopping about, rendering the cage as populous to him as though he were the tenant of a bird-fancier's shop. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1905, author=George Bernard Shaw, title=The Irrational Knot, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Why, I thought he was a straight-haired, sleeky , canting snake of a man. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1920, author=John Freeman, title=Poems New and Old, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Even when with heavy Plume and pall The sleeky coaches roll by, Coffin, flowers and all, He laughs, for he sees Crouched on the coffin a small Yellowy shape go by-- Death, uneasy and melancholy. }}
As a noun terms
is .As an adjective sleeky is
sleek, slick.sleeky
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