Slunk

//slʌŋk// noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An animal, especially a calf, born prematurely or abortively.

    "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.)"

  2. 2
    A slough, a low, wet, miry place. (Compare slank.) UK, dialectal

    "Amang the harbour's sludge and mud; They row'd thegither in the slunk; Their heads were up, their bodies sunk; What wi' the slusch they ate and drunk, […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of slink form-of, participle, past

Synonyms

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amblebargebastardbowl alongbundleclump

Example

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"When she yelled at the dog, it slunk away home."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From an allusive sense of slink (“to bring forth young prematurely”).

Etymology 2

Compare slank (“low place, especially one which fills with water”), dialectal slonk (“depression, hollow, slough”).

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