slunk

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An animal, especially a calf, born prematurely or abortively.
    — 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.)
  2. A slough, a low, wet, miry place. (Compare slank.) UK,dialectal
    — 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, […]
动词 v.
  1. simple past and past participle of slink form-of,participle,past
    — “Oh, no. Where are they going? That was such a sneaky walk.” “They slunk.” “They did. Oh, my God, we're dead.”

词形变化

slunks plural slunks plural

词源

词源 1
From an allusive sense of slink (“to bring forth young prematurely”).
词源 2
Compare slank (“low place, especially one which fills with water”), dialectal slonk (“depression, hollow, slough”).
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