SLOKE, vb. to quench.  Isaiah, I, 2, 3; and 49, 26.  O.N. sloekva,
    to quench.  O. Ic. slaekva, Norse sloekka, id.  The word does
    not show the Scand. umlaut o > oe.  Cu. sleck has further
    developed the umlaut oe to e.  Cp.  O. Ic. ae < O. Nh. ae. 
    All such words in Norse exhibit the intermediate stage oe up
    to the present time.  In Ic. the oe developed to ae, in the
    first half of the 13th century. (See Noreen P.G.(2)I, 529.)
    In later O. Nhb. also ae > e.

SLOKEN, SLOKYN, vb. to quench, to satisfy.  Dunbar, T.M.W., 283;
    K.Q., 42; M.W., 116, 35.  O.N. slokna, Norse slokna,
    inchoative of sloekva.  It may, however, be an infinitive in
    en from sloekkva, see slock.

SLOKNING, sb. the act of quenching, also the power of quenching. 
    Douglas, II, 26, heading of Chapter XII; Montg.  C. and S.,
    1377.  Pr. p., see sloken.  Cp.  O.N. slokning, Dan.
    slukning.

SLONK, sb. a ditch, a depression in the land, also a slope on the
    mountain side.  Winyet, II, 19, 5; Wallace, III, 4.  Dan.
    slank, a depression in the land, a hollow, O.N. slakki,
    Norse slakke.  The non-assimilation proves E. Scand. source. 
    Cp.  Sw. dial. slakk adj. bending, e.g., “bakken jaer no na
    slakk,” the hill slopes a great deal, again a W. Scand. form
    in Sw. dial.  The word is probably related to Eng. slack,
    loose, lax, Dan. slak, Norse sl[-a]k.

SLUT, sb. a slattern, an untidy woman.  Dunbar, 119, 71.  O.N.,
    O. Ic. sloettr.  See Skeat.

SMAIK, sb. a coward.  Sat.  P., 39, 175; Lyndsay, 425, 1320, and
    434, 1562.  O.N. smoeykr, adj. timid, M.L.G. smeker means
    “a flatterer,” besides the vowel, as well as the final r of
    the L.G. word, is against a L.G. origin of the Sco. word.  The
    Sco. ai indicates an original diphthong.  Cp.  Cu. smaik
    applied to a small boy, or any small being.

SNAPE-DIKE, sb. an enclosure.  Jamieson, Ayr.  Cp.  O.N. snap,
    a pasture for cattle, especially a winter pasture (Haldorson),
    snapa, vb. to nibble, M.E. snaipen.  The vowel in the Sco.
    word proves an original open a, hence it is from the vb.
    snapa.  O.N. snap, sb. would have given sn[)a]p.  Our word
    is sn[-e]p.

SNIB, SNEB, vb. to snub, check, reprove.  Sat., P., 33, 18; L.L.,
    3387.  Dan. snibbe, M.E. snibben.  Eng. snub and M.E.
    snubben correspond to O.N. snubba with original unumlauted
    vowel.