Slunk
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /slʌŋk/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Slunk is a noun meaning An animal, especially a calf, born prematurely or abortively.
Meaning
An animal, especially a calf, born prematurely or abortively.
More Meanings
- (UK, dialectal) A slough, a low, wet, miry place. (Compare slank.)
- simple past and past participle of slink
Example Sentences
[…] a 'slunk' is a 'slonk' (depression) with mud; […]
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.
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.
Word Forms
- slunks
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include subjuvenile, suckler, fetus, runt, subyearling, juvenile.
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