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Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)

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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.

SLUNKER, v. To slink away quietly, to take oneself off unobtrusively.Slk. 1807 Hogg Poems (1874) 63:
Slowly he [a dog] slunkered away.

[Nonce deriv. form based on slunk, pa.t. of slink.]

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