▪ I. slinker, n.1
(ˈslɪŋkə(r))
[f. slink v. 3 + -er1.]
An animal which slinks or casts its young.
| 1810 in W. H. Marshall Rev. (1818) II. 62 The quantity [of cheese] may be stated at 300 lb. from each cow, ‘slinkers’ (such as cast their calves) and bad milkers included. |
▪ II. ˈslinker, n.2
[f. slink v. + -er1.]
One who slinks about; a shirker. So as v. intr., to shirk.
| 1880 G. Smith Gipsy Life ii. 48 When the task-master perceived the ‘gang’ had begun to ‘slinker’ he would shout out. 1919 G. W. Deeping Second Youth xxviii. 238 It makes a man so mean, so sly, such a slinker round corners. 1923 ― Secret Sanctuary x. 97 He had seen the most inveterate slinker change into a creature of crude and bounding energy when a piece of leather was to be kicked about a field. 1954 J. R. R. Tolkien Two Towers ii. iii. 247 Sam's guess was that the Sméagol and Gollum halves (or what in his own mind he called Slinker and Stinker) had made a truce and a temporary alliance. |