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SlackEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
* As an English and Dutch surname, from the adjective slack. * Also as an English surname, from the noun slack (“shallow valley”). * Possibly also a Slovene surname Americanized from slak (“bindweed”), from Proto-Slavic *sъvolkъ. * The name of the software is an acronym of Searchable Log of All Conversation and Knowledge.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗slackEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Middle English slak, from Old English slæc (“slack”), from Proto-Germanic *slakaz. For sense of coal dust, compare slag.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗slackEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From Middle English slakken, slaken, from Old English slacian, from Proto-Germanic *slakōną (“to slack, slacken”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗slackEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
Either from the adjective in Etymology 1 or the verb in Etymology 2.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗slackEnglish (en) · Etymology 4Source text
From Middle English slak, from Old Norse slakki (“a slope”). Cognate with Icelandic slakki, Norwegian slakke.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗slackEnglish (en) · Etymology 5Source text
Of unknown origin. Possibly related to Middle Dutch slacke or Middle Low German slecke. Doublet of slag.
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Chambers (1908)
1908- SlackEnglish · e-38700-2031
Slack, slak, adj. lax or loose: not firmly extended or drawn out: not holding fast, weak: not eager or diligent, inattentive: not violent or rapid, slow.—adv. in a slack manner: partially: insufficiently.—n. that part of
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Slack, slak, n. coal-dross. [Ger. schlacke.]
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Slack, slak, n. (Scot.) a cleft between hills: a common: a boggy place. [Scand., Ice. slakki, a hill-slope.]
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