slinking

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Verb

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slinking

  1. present participle and gerund of slink

Noun

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slinking (plural slinkings)

  1. The act of one who slinks.
    • 1870–1871 (date written), Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter LIX, in Roughing It, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company [et al.], published 1872, →OCLC, page 428:
      [A]t midnight, after wanderings that were but slinkings away from cheerfulness and light, I slunk to my bed.

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