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.

From Dutch slee.

slee (plural sleë)

1. sledge
2. sled, sleigh

• IPA^(key): /sleː/

• slee

  (file)

• 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 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 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. imperative

• lees