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"ref": "1842, Robert Browning, Waring",
"text": "The leaving us was just a feint; / Back here to London did he slink, / And now works on without a wink / Of sleep, and we are on the brink",
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"ref": "1922, Michael Arlen, “3/1/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days",
"text": "How meek and shrunken did that haughty Tarmac become as it slunk by the wide circle of asphalt of the yellow sort, that was loosely strewn before the great iron gates of Lady Hall as a forerunner of the consideration that awaited the guests of Rupert, Earl of Kare, […].",
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"ref": "2013 November, Glenn Thrush, “Locked in the Cabinet”, in POLITICO",
"text": "Earnest slunk backstage.",
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"ref": "2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 67",
"text": "I have arrived to catch the 0830 TfW service to Crewe, worked by a tatty and unrefurbished 175114. As if ashamed of its appearance, it slinks into Platform 2 (instead of Platform 1, where it was expected). No announcement had been made, and we leave without any fanfare.",
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"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*slinkaną",
"t": "to creep; crawl"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *slinkaną (“to creep; crawl”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*sleng-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *sleng-",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ine-pro",
"2": "*slenk-",
"t": "to turn; wind; twist"
},
"expansion": "*slenk- (“to turn; wind; twist”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*sel-",
"t": "to sneak; crawl"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“to sneak; crawl”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fy",
"2": "slinke"
},
"expansion": "West Frisian slinke",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "slinken",
"t": "to shrink; shrivel"
},
"expansion": "Dutch slinken (“to shrink; shrivel”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "slinken"
},
"expansion": "Low German slinken",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "slinka",
"t": "to glide"
},
"expansion": "Swedish slinka (“to glide”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "schleichen",
"t": "to slink"
},
"expansion": "German schleichen (“to slink”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "sleek"
},
"expansion": "sleek",
"name": "l"
}
],
"etymology_text": "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”). 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.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more slink",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most slink",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "slink (comparative more slink, superlative most slink)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Scottish English"
],
"glosses": [
"Thin; lean"
],
"links": [
[
"Thin",
"thin"
],
[
"lean",
"lean"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Scotland) Thin; lean"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "slunken"
}
],
"tags": [
"Scotland"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/slɪŋk/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪŋk"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-slink.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/48/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-slink.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-slink.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/48/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-slink.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-slink.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"word": "slink"
}
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