Noun: slink
| Singular | slink |
| Plural | slinks |
Sample Sentences
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His slink became a stride; he held his tail high; his eyes began to look more curious than scared. But he was still cautious. [1998, Beppie Noyes, Mosby, the Kennedy Center Cat, page 30:]
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It is an ascertained fact that young or “slink” veal very frequently gives rise to diarrhœa, more especially when that disease is epidemic. [1868, Charles Alexander Cameron, The Stock-Feeder's Manual:]
Nouns inflected like slink
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. 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”).
2. 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. See: Old English Nouns '
slincan', Swedish Nouns '
slinka'.