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