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slink - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To move in a quiet furtive manner; sneak.
- intransitive verb To give birth to prematurely.
- adjective Born prematurely.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To sneak; steal or move quietly: generally with off or away.
- noun A sneaking fellow.
- noun A greedy starveling.
- noun A cheat.
- noun A small piece of wet meadow-land.
- Thin; slender; lean; starved and hungry: as, slink cattle.
- Sneaky; mean.
- noun The skin of a still-born calf. Also
slunk . - To cast prematurely: said of a female boast.
- To miscarry; cast the young prematurely: said of a female boast.
- noun An animal, especially a calf, prematurely brought forth.
- noun The flesh of an animal prematurely brought forth; the veal of a calf killed immediately after being calved; bob-veal.
- noun A bastard child.
- noun A thin or poor and bony fish, especially such a mackerel. See
mackerel . - Produced prematurely: as, a slink calf.
- Immature and unfit for human food: as, slink veal; slink meat.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To creep away meanly; to steal away; to sneak.
- transitive verb To miscarry; -- said of female beasts.
- transitive verb To cast prematurely; -- said of female beasts.
- adjective Produced prematurely.
- adjective Scot. Thin; lean.
- noun The young of a beast brought forth prematurely, esp. a calf brought forth before its time.
- noun Prov. Eng. & Scot. A thievish fellow; a sneak.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To
sneak aboutfurtively . - verb transitive To give
birth to ananimal prematurely . - noun The young of an animal when born prematurely, especially a calf.
- noun UK, Scotland, dialect A thievish fellow; a sneak.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb walk stealthily
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English slinken, from Old English slincan.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Old English slincan ("to creep, crawl"), from Proto-Germanic *slenkanan (compare Dutch slinken ("to shrink, shrivel"), Swedish slinka ("to glide")).
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Examples
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I see a person what you may call slink away secret, like she'd done somethin 'to be' shamed of, 'twas that girl.
"Some Say" Neighbours in Cyrus Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896
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December 3rd, 2009 9: 34 am ET you announce, you don't announce and simply 'slink' away like a beaten dog
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Normally when you drop out of the presidential race, you kind of slink home and lay low.
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Dictionary.com had several meanings for the word "slink" but I like this one: "to walk or move in a slow, sinuous, provocative way".
Kiss My Curvy "S" or What Should I Name These? Studio Marcy - Marcy Lamberson 2008
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And so she had to kind of slink back to the table.
Taking on the World: Joseph and Stewart Alsop -- Guardians of the American Century 1996
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It may also be mentioned here that the sight of a green, freshly-skinned hide, or a freshly-skinned carcass, will frequently cause cows to "slink" their calves.
Ranching, Sport and Travel Thomas Carson
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It is an ascertained fact that young or "slink" veal very frequently gives rise to diarrhoea, more especially when that disease is epidemic.
The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Charles Alexander Cameron 1875
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Bush began the American "slink" out of the mess that his lies got us into.
Propeller Most Popular Stories clipontie 2010
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Bush began the American "slink" out of the mess that his lies got us into.
Propeller Most Popular Stories clipontie 2010
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Bush began the American "slink" out of the mess that his lies got us into.
Propeller Most Popular Stories clipontie 2010
Related Words
synonyms (122)
Words with the same meaning
- amble
- barge
- bowl along
- bundle
- clump
- contort
- corkscrew
- couch
- cower
- crawl
- creep
- cringe
- crinkle
- crouch
- drag
- flounce
- foot
- footslog
- go on tiptoe
- grovel
- gumshoe
- halt
- hippety-hop
- hitch
- hobble
- hop
- inch
- inch along
- intort
- jog
- jolt
- jump
- lay wait
- lean
- lie in wait
- limp
- lumber
- lunge
- lurch
- lurk
- meander
- mince
- miscarry
- nightwalk
- pace
- pad
- paddle
- peg
- piaffe
- piaffer
- plod
- prance
- prowl
- pussyfoot
- quail
- rack
- roll
- sashay
- saunter
- scallop
- scrabble
- scramble
- screw
- scuff
- scuffle
- scuttle
- serpentine
- shadow
- shamble
- shirk
- shuffle
- sidle
- single-foot
- skip
- skulk
- slide
- slither
- slog
- slouch
- snake
- sneak
- sneaker
- stagger
- stalk
- stamp
- steal
- steal along
- stomp
- straddle
- straggle
- stride
- stroll
- strut
- stump
- swagger
- swing
- swirl
- thin
- tippytoe
- tiptoe
- tittup
- toddle
- totter
- traipse
- trip
- trudge
- turn
- twine
- twirl
- twist
- twist and turn
- waddle
- wamble
- weasel
- whirl
- whorl
- wiggle
- wind
- wobble
- worm
- worm along
- wring
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