Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. A past tense and a past participle of slink.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Preterit and past participle of slink.
- A variant of slink.
Wiktionary
- n. an animal, especially a calf, born prematurely or abortively
- v. simple past tense and past participle of slink.
GNU Webster's 1913
- imp. & p. p. of slink.
Examples
“Then amidst a loud hooting, Hall took his weapons and without a word slunk into the boat of the Raven that lay astern, and rowed ashore; nor did Eric see his face for many months.”
“He had heard of his extraordinary powers of curing almost every description of malady peculiar to the human frame, and without another word slunk out of the room.”
The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
“Hahn-Bin who uses only his first name slunk across the stage with his instrument, propped himself atop a piano and whipped his bow toward the crowd, more ringmaster than concertmaster.”
“The past several years I have kind of slunk around and sulked and not really celebrated or feted my birthday.”
“When we got just about up to the grove -- the police believed that the Klansmen were really out there, I guess -- so they kind of slunk back.”
“I kind of slunk along, sticking to the walls, hands in my pockets.”
“Jurgis 'task to slide them into the trap, calves and all, and on the floor below they took out these "slunk" calves, and butchered them for meat, and used even the skins of them.”
“So in a trice the carcass of the cow would be cleaned out, and entrails would have vanished; it was Jurgis 'task to slide them into the trap, calves and all, and on the floor below they took out these "slunk" calves, and butchered them for meat, and used even the skins of them.”
“One curious thing he had noticed, the very first day, in his profession of shoveler of guts; which was the sharp trick of the floor bosses whenever there chanced to come a "slunk" calf.”
“The reporter kind of slunk away and even apologized for using the word "meltdown.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘slunk’.
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movement (slow)
words describing slow action or movement
( randomness, descriptive )creep, crawl, plod, slouch, idle, lumber, tiptoe, bend, amble, mosey, saunter, loiter and 117 more...
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unk knowns
bunk, chipmunk, junkyard, funk, junket, crunk, chunk, kerplunk, hunk, preshrunk, spunk, countersunk and 53 more...
chained_bear Of a calf, born prematurely. Seen in Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (1906). Oct 7, 2008