Slink

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /slɪŋk/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋk

Origin

From Old English slincan ("to creep, crawl"), from Proto-Germanic *slinkanÄ… (compare Dutch slinken ("to shrink, shrivel"), Swedish slinka ("to glide")).

Full definition of slink

Verb

1. (intransitive) To sneak about furtively.
• MiltonBack to the thicket slunk the guilty serpent.
• LandorThere were some few who slank obliquely from them as they passed.
• 1922, w, “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days Chapter 3/1/1, 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, ....
2. (transitive) To give birth to an animal prematurely.a cow that slinks her calf

Noun

1. The young of an animal when born prematurely, especially a calf.
2. (UK, Scotland, dialect) A thievish fellow; a sneak.

Adjective

1. (Scotland) thin; lean

Anagrams

• kilns, links