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slunk

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5 lettersPronunciation /slʌŋk/Sorted klnsuStarts with SEnds with K0 clues
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Definitions

  1. An animal, especially a calf, born prematurely or abortively.

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • 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.)
  • 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.
  • 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, […]

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