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First published 1971 (SND Vol. VIII).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1807
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¶SLUNKER, v. To slink away quietly, to take oneself off unobtrusively.Slk. 1807 Hogg Poems (1874) 63:
Slowly he [a dog] slunkered away.
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