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Slink vs Slither - What's the difference?

slink | slither |

As a noun slink

is snail.

As a verb slither is

to move about smoothly and from side to side.

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 ----

    slither

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To move about smoothly and from side to side.
  • To slide
  • * 2003 , J. Flash, An American Savage
    • I bent down and with both hands I scooped up as much of this pissshit as I could. The green and brown clump felt like Jello as it dripped down all over my clothes. It was slithering through inbetween my fingers.

    Derived terms

    * slitherlink

    Anagrams

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