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Slank vs Slink - What's the difference?

slank | slink |

As a verb slank

is (slink).

As a noun slink is

snail.

slank

English

Verb

(head)
  • (slink)
  • * Frederick William Rolfe, The desire and pursuit of the whole
  • So, when priests slank up to him, he civilly warned them off: if they merited kindness and persisted, he gave them double
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    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 ----