Skinked vs Slinked - What's the difference?
skinked | slinked |
(skink)
A lizard of the Scincidae family, having small or reduced limbs or none at all and long tails that are regenerated when shed.
(obsolete) drink
(obsolete) pottage
(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.
As verbs the difference between skinked and slinked
is that skinked is past tense of skink while slinked is past tense of slink.skinked
English
Verb
(head)skink
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(wikipedia skink)Etymology 1
From (etyl) scinc, from (etyl) scincus, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) scencan or (etyl) skenkja.Noun
- (Francis Bacon)
Derived terms
* Cullen skink (Webster 1913)Anagrams
*slinked
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *slink
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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