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slinker | slinked |

As a noun slinker

is one who slinks.

As a verb slinked is

past tense of slink.

slinker

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who slinks.
  • * P. G. Wodehouse
  • He paws! He's a slinker and a prowler and a leerer. He's a pest and a worm!
    ----

    slinked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (slink)
  • Anagrams

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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 ----