Talk:slunk

RFV discussion: May 2006

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slunk

Not sure -- Tawker 03:04, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

• Tosh. I have converted it into form of verb to slink - SemperBlotto 08:38, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Whoa there. This has been on my list for a long time, in the deleted sense of ‘unborn or miscarried animal’. This is from Naked Lunch:

Then I met a great guy, Placenta Juan the Afterbirth Tycoon. Made his in slunks during the war. (Slunks are underage calves trailing afterbirths and bacteria, generally in an unsanitary and unfit condition. A calf may not be sold as food until it reaches a minimum age of six weeks. Prior to that time it is classified as a slunk. Slunk trafficking is subject to a heavy penalty.)

...And I've got another one too, from Will Self's Cock & Bull:

‘…Miscarriage after miscarriage, each of my bloody slunks seemed to provoke me to create another.’

Although I made notes of these, I never put them in Wiktionary cos I wasn't sure if they were real or not. Self was a big Burroughs fan and he may have borrowed the word from Naked Lunch. However, there is a dialectal use of slink to mean ‘give birth prematurely’, and the fact that someone else had put this definition in makes me think that it is a real (though rare) word. Widsith 08:44, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

I've put it back, with some extra cites. Widsith 17:39, 1 May 2006 (UTC)