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Skinked vs Slinked - What's the difference?

skinked | slinked |

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)

  • skink

    English

    (wikipedia skink)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) scinc, from (etyl) scincus, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A lizard of the Scincidae family, having small or reduced limbs or none at all and long tails that are regenerated when shed.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) scencan or (etyl) skenkja.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Scotland) to serve (a drink)
  • * Shirley
  • Such wine as Ganymede doth skink to Jove.

    Noun

  • (obsolete) drink
  • (obsolete) pottage
  • (Francis Bacon)
    Derived terms
    * Cullen skink (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

    *

    slinked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (slink)
  • Anagrams

    * *

    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 ----