slunk

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.4 Verb

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From an allusive sense of slink, meaning ‘bring forth young prematurely’.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /slʌŋk/

[edit] Noun

slunk (plural slunks)

1. an animal, especially a calf, born prematurely or abortively

   • 1959: Then I met a great guy, Placenta Juan the Afterbirth Tycoon. Made his in slunks during the war. (Slunks are underage calves trailing afterbirths and bacteria, generally in an unsanitary and unfit condition.) — William Burrough, Naked Lunch
   • 2001: Calf heads were tanned from yearling calves less than a year in age. Slunk skins were tanned from unborn calfskins which, gruesome as it sounds, were often by products of the cow slaughtering process. — The Making of a Drum Company, ed. Rob Cook (Hal Leonard 2001, p.53)

[edit] Verb

slunk

1. Simple past tense and past participle of slink.