topographic name from Middle Dutch slijcke
‘mire’, ‘marshy place’, or a habitational name for someone from a
place named with this word, for example Slijkenburg near Berg op Zoom
in Brabant or Slijkewijck in Gelderland.
It could also be a
diphthongized variant of Slik in North Holland.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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