slinking

English

Verb

slinking

1. present participle and gerund of slink

Noun

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.

Anagrams

• Inklings, inklings, linkings, sling ink