slunk
/slʌŋk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.97 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An animal, especially a calf, born prematurely or abortively.
verb
simple past and past participle of slink
Example Sentences
- "Then I met a great guy, Placenta Juan the Afterbirth Tycoon. Made his in slunks during the war. (Slunks are underage calves trailing afterbirths and bacteria, generally in an unsanitary and unfit condition.)"
- "Calf heads were tanned from yearling calves less than a year in age. Slunk skins were tanned from unborn calfskins which, gruesome as it sounds, were often by products of the cow slaughtering process."
- "Amang the harbour's sludge and mud; They row'd thegither in the slunk; Their heads were up, their bodies sunk; What wi' the slusch they ate and drunk, […]"
- "He made the road, and since it was made there was never anything done to it except when men were carting turf and then they would fill in a "slunk." You might say now it is no road."
- "[…] a 'slunk' is a 'slonk' (depression) with mud; […]"
- "“Oh, no. Where are they going? That was such a sneaky walk.” “They slunk.” “They did. Oh, my God, we're dead.”"
Etymology
Usage
- British usage