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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

silk·y / ˈsilkē/ • adj. (silk·i·er , silk·i·est ) of or resembling silk, esp. in being soft, fine, and lustrous: the fur felt silky and soft. ∎  (of a person or their speech or manner) suave and smooth, esp. in a way intended to be persuasive: a silky, seductive voice. DERIVATIVES: silk·i·ly / ˈsilkəlē/ adv. silk·i·ness n.

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A Dictionary of Earth Sciences | 1999 | | Copyright

silky Applied to the mineral lustre of some fibrous minerals, e.g. satin spar.
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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

silky •brickie, Dickie, hickey, icky, mickey, Nicky, picky, quickie, rickey, Rikki, sickie, sticky, tricky, Vicky •milky, silky, Wilkie •Chinky, dinky, Helsinki, inky, Kinki, kinky, minke, pinkie, pinky, slinky, stinky, stotinki •frisky, risky, whisky •Dzerzhinsky, Kandinsky, kolinsky, Nijinsky, Stravinsky •doohickey • smart-alecky • garlicky •colicky • gimmicky • panicky • finicky •plasticky •crikey, Nike, psyche, spiky •choccy, cocky, flocky, gnocchi, hockey, jockey, oche, pocky, rocky, schlocky, stocky •conchae, donkey, honky, shonky, wonky •Brodsky •Malinowski, Minkowski, Stokowski, Tchaikovsky •Chomsky • Trotsky • droshky •jabberwocky •balky, chalky, corky, gawky, Gorky, Milwaukee, pawky, porky, talkie, walkie-talkie •Sikorsky • Mussorgsky

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