slinking
English
Verb
slinking
Noun
slinking (plural slinkings)
- The act of one who slinks.
- 1870–1871 (date written), Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], Roughing It, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company [et al.], published 1872, →OCLC, page 59:
- at midnight, after wanderings that were but slinkings away from cheerfulness and light, I slunk to my bed.