slink
Plural: slinks
Verb
Verb Forms: slunk, slank, slinked, slinking, slinks
- To move stealthily or furtively, often with a creeping motion.
- walk stealthily
- "I saw a cougar slinking toward its prey"
- To sneak about furtively.
- To give birth to an animal prematurely.
Noun
- A furtive sneaking motion.
- The young of an animal when born prematurely, especially a calf.
- The meat of such a prematurely born animal.
- A bastard child, one born out of wedlock.
- A thievish fellow; a sneak.
Adj
- Thin; lean
Examples
- a cow that slinks her calf
- He watched his opponent slink a crucial two-letter word onto the board, opening up a triple-word score.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English slynken, sclynken, from Old English slincan (“to creep; crawl”), from Proto-Germanic *slinkaną (“to creep; crawl”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleng-, *slenk- (“to turn; wind; twist”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“to sneak; crawl”).
Cognate with West Frisian slinke, Dutch slinken (“to shrink; shrivel”), Low German slinken, Swedish slinka (“to glide”). Compare also German schleichen (“to slink”). More at sleek.
Synonyms
Scrabble Score: 9
slink: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordslink: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
slink: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary