slunk

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/slʌŋk/

Definition of slunk

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noun

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.)”
“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.”

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noun

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.)”
“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.”
(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, […]”
“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.”
“[…] a 'slunk' is a 'slonk' (depression) with mud; […]”

verb

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

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