English
[edit]Etymology
From an allusive sense of slink, meaning ‘bring forth young prematurely’.
[edit]Pronunciation
IPA: /slʌŋk/
[edit]Noun
slunk (plural slunks)
an animal, especially a calf, born prematurely or abortively
1959: 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.) — William Burrough, Naked Lunch
2001: 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. — The Making of a Drum Company, ed. Rob Cook (Hal Leonard 2001, p.53)
[edit]Verb
slunk
Simple past tense and past participle of slink.
6/15/11
Placenta Juan the Afterbirth Tycoon
English
[edit]Etymology
From an allusive sense of slink, meaning ‘bring forth young prematurely’.
[edit]Pronunciation
IPA: /slʌŋk/
[edit]Noun
slunk (plural slunks)
an animal, especially a calf, born prematurely or abortively
1959: 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.) — William Burrough, Naked Lunch
2001: 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. — The Making of a Drum Company, ed. Rob Cook (Hal Leonard 2001, p.53)
[edit]Verb
slunk
Simple past tense and past participle of slink.
