slunk meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

slunk

noun

/slʌŋk/

Etymology From an allusive sense of slink (“to bring forth young prematurely”).

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:
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.2001, ed. Rob Cook, The Making of a Drum Company, Hal Leonard, published 2001, page 53:

noun

Etymology Compare slank (“low place, especially one which fills with water”), dialectal slonk (“depression, hollow, slough”).

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:
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.1907, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Sessional Papers, page 202:

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[…] a 'slunk' is a 'slonk' (depression) with mud; […], Gordon Kendal, Gavin Douglas's Translation of 'The Aeneid' (1513), page 580