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Definition slink
Etymology
From Middle English slynken, sclynken, from Old English slincan (“to creep; crawl”), from Proto-Germanic *slinkan? (“to creep; crawl”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleng-, *slenk- (“to turn; wind; twist”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“to sneak; crawl”). Cognate with West Frisian slinke, Dutch slinken (“to shrink; shrivel”), Low German slinken, Swedish slinka (“to glide”). Compare also German schleichen (“to slink”). More at slike.
Verb
slink (third-person singular simple present slinks, present participle slinking, simple past and past participle slunk or slinked or slank)
- (intransitive) To sneak about furtively.
- (transitive, intransitive) To give birth to an animal prematurely.
Noun
slink (countable and uncountable, plural slinks)
- (countable) A furtive sneaking motion.
- The young of an animal when born prematurely, especially a calf.
- The meat of such a prematurely born animal.
- (obsolete) A bastard child, one born out of wedlock.
- (Britain, Scotland, dialectal) A thievish fellow; a sneak.
Adjective
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