SLINK, SLINKING
NOUNS – PERSON
► SLONK a lazy slinking fellow; an idle, dissolute person; an indolent, clownish fellow; a hanger-on → 19C Eng. dial.
VERBS
► LEER to walk stealthily or with averted looks; to slink away → 1586 obs.
► MEACH ► MEECH to sneak, to slink, to skulk; to idle stealthily or shamefacedly about; to creep about softly; to cringe; to look ashamed → 1746 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► MITCH to slink, to slouch, to sneak, to prowl about; to crouch, to huddle → 1871 Eng. dial.
► SLENCH to creep or slink away, to sneak → c1330 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► SLY to move or go stealthily; to slink → E19 Sc. & US
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