Blinkest vs Slinkest - What's the difference?
blinkest | slinkest |
(archaic) (slink)
To sneak about furtively.
* Milton
* Landor
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To give birth to an animal prematurely.
The young of an animal when born prematurely, especially a calf.
(UK, Scotland, dialect) A thievish fellow; a sneak.
In archaic terms the difference between blinkest and slinkest
is that blinkest is archaic second-person singular of blink while slinkest is archaic second-person singular of slink.slinkest
English
Verb
(head)slink
English
Verb
- Back to the thicket slunk the guilty serpent.
- There were some few who slank obliquely from them as they passed.
- a cow that slinks her calf