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slunks

slunks is the plural of slunk.

Meaning of slunk

Noun (1)

slunk (plural slunks)

  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.)1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press

Noun (2)

slunk (plural slunks)

  1. (UK, dialectal) A slough, a low, wet, miry place. (Compare slank.)
    • 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, […]1827, William Tennant, Papistry Storm'd: Or, The Dingin' Down O' the Cathedral : Ane Poem, in Sax Sangs, page 88

Questions about slunks

What is slunks the plural of?
Slunks is the plural of slunk.

Words near slunks in the dictionary

  1. slungshot
  2. slungshots
  3. Slunj
  4. slunk
  5. slunken
  6. slunks
  7. slunt
  8. slunts
  9. slur
  10. slur over
  11. slur slinging slasher

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