Slinky vs Slinks - What's the difference?

As an adjective slinky

is furtive, stealthy or catlike.

is a three-dimensional curve — a spiral wound around a helix.

third-person singular of slink.

(er)

furtive, stealthy or catlike

(UK, dialect, dated) thin; lank

(slinkies)

(mathematics) A three-dimensional curve — a spiral wound around a helix.

(head)

(slink)

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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.

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To give birth to an animal prematurely.

a cow that slinks her calf

(en noun)

The young of an animal when born prematurely, especially a calf.

(UK, Scotland, dialect) A thievish fellow; a sneak.

(en adjective)

(Scotland) thin; lean