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Slink vs Plink - What's the difference?

slink | plink |

As nouns the difference between slink and plink

is that slink is snail while plink is a short, high-pitched sound.

As a verb plink is

(colloquial) to play a song or a portion of a song, usually on a percussion instrument such as a piano.

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 ----

    plink

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A short, high-pitched sound

    • Related terms

    * (go "plink") to make a short, high pitched sound, to break while making a "plink" sound, : ''The lightbulb went "plink".

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (colloquial) To play a song or a portion of a song, usually on a percussion instrument such as a piano.
  • * 1971: Louis C. Reichman, Barry J. Wishart, American Politics and Its Interpreters
    • He can plink out Let Me Call You Sweetheart for reporters on a piano or rib himself on television talk shows....
  • * 1997: Kevin Osborn, Signe Larson, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Bringing Up Baby
    • Your child may also begin to plink out a few notes on a xylophone or toy piano before her first birthday.
  • * 2004: Angela Elwell Hunt, The Truth Teller
    • The female deputy sat down at the ramshackle piano and proceeded to plink out the opening notes of "Heart and Soul."
    English onomatopoeias