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slecht

Pronunciation: /slɛxt/

“slecht” is a Dutch word. Its 2 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. bad
  2. ordinary, simple, common, mean

Etymology

From an earlier meaning of “simple, ordinary, inferior, plain” (cf. slechts), from Middle Dutch slecht (“smooth, flat”), from Old Dutch *sleht, from Proto-Germanic *slihtaz.

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