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Skinks vs Slinks - What's the difference?

skinks | slinks |

As a noun skinks

is .

As a verb slinks is

(slink).

skinks

English

Noun

(head)

    • slinks

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (slink)
    • ----

    slink

    English

    Verb

  • To sneak about furtively.
  • * Milton
    • Back to the thicket slunk the guilty serpent.
  • * Landor
    • There were some few who slank obliquely from them as they passed.
  • * '>citation
  • To give birth to an animal prematurely.
    • a cow that slinks her calf

    Noun

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

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (Scotland) thin; lean

    • Anagrams

    * English irregular verbs ----