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▪ I. slinker, n.1|ˈslɪŋkə(r)|
[f. slink v. 3 + -er1.]
An animal which slinks or casts its young.
1810in W. H. Marshall Rev. (1818) II. 62 The quantity [of cheese] may be stated at 300 lb. from each cow, ‘slinkers’ (such as cast their calves) and bad milkers included.
▪ II. ˈslinker, n.2
[f. slink v. + -er1.]
One who slinks about; a shirker. So as v. intr., to shirk.
1880G. Smith Gipsy Life ii. 48 When the task-master perceived the ‘gang’ had begun to ‘slinker’ he would shout out. 1919G. W. Deeping Second Youth xxviii. 238 It makes a man so mean, so sly, such a slinker round corners. 1923― Secret Sanctuary x. 97 He had seen the most inveterate slinker change into a creature of crude and bounding energy when a piece of leather was to be kicked about a field. 1954J. R. R. Tolkien Two Towers ii. iii. 247 Sam's guess was that the Sméagol and Gollum halves (or what in his own mind he called Slinker and Stinker) had made a truce and a temporary alliance. |