slim

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

wicked, mischievous, perverse ; from the German SCHLIM. It is a word generally used in the same sense with sly. Slim also signifies slender-bodied, and thinly clothed, N.

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slim
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.