slink
See also: šlink
English
Etymology
From Middle English slynken, sclynken, from Old English slincan (“to creep; crawl”), from Proto-Germanic *slinkaną (“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.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɪŋk
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.
- c. 1607, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, Act IV, Scene 2,[1]
- As we do turn our backs
- From our companion thrown into his grave,
- So his familiars to his buried fortunes
- Slink all away, leave their false vows with him,
- Like empty purses pick’d; and his poor self,
- A dedicated beggar to the air,
- With his disease of all-shunn’d poverty,
- Walks, like contempt, alone.
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 9[2]
- Back to the thicket slunk the guilty serpent.
- (Can we date this quote by Landor and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- There were some few who slank obliquely from them as they passed.
- 1922, Michael Arlen, “3/1/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days[3]:
- How meek and shrunken did that haughty Tarmac become as it slunk by the wide circle of asphalt of the yellow sort, that was loosely strewn before the great iron gates of Lady Hall as a forerunner of the consideration that awaited the guests of Rupert, Earl of Kare, […] .
- c. 1607, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, Act IV, Scene 2,[1]
- (transitive, intransitive) To give birth to an animal prematurely.
- a cow that slinks her calf
Translations
sneak about furtively
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Noun
slink (countable and uncountable, plural slinks)
- (countable) A furtive sneaking motion.
- 1998, Beppie Noyes, Mosby, the Kennedy Center Cat (page 30)
- His slink became a stride; he held his tail high; his eyes began to look more curious than scared. But he was still cautious.
- 1998, Beppie Noyes, Mosby, the Kennedy Center Cat (page 30)
- 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.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) A thievish fellow; a sneak.
Translations
the young of an animal when born prematurely
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Adjective
slink (comparative more slink, superlative most slink)
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Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
slink
- (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of slinken
- (deprecated template usage) imperative of slinken
Anagrams
Swedish
Verb
slink
- (deprecated template usage) imperative of slinka.
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