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▪ I. slonk, n. Sc. and north. dial.|slɒŋk|
[Of doubtful origin: cf. Da. dial. slånk, slunk a hollow or depression in the ground, and MLG. -slunc, LG. slunk, G. dial. schlunk, schlonk gullet, gorge, abyss.]
(See later quots. and cf. slunk n.)
The Eng. Dial. Dict. also records the word from Kent.
c1470Henry Wallace iii. 4 Baith erbe and froyte, busk and bewis, braid Haboundandlye in euery slonk and slaid. 1513Douglas æneid xi. xi. 84 In dern sladis and mony scroggy slonk. 1563Winȝet tr. Vincent. Lirin. ii. Wks. (S.T.S.) II. 19 Sa grete dangerous slonkis of sindry errouris. 16..Lindesay's (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (1728) 90 She standing in a slonk [v.r. slake] bringing home water. 1728Ramsay Poems Gloss., Slonk, a Mire, Ditch, or Slough. 1880Antrim & Down Gloss., Slonk,..a ditch; a deep, wet hollow in a road. 1894Heslop Northumbld. Gloss., Slonk, a depression in the ground, like a ‘swallow hole’.
▪ II. slonk, v. rare.
[Of obscure origin: cf. Du. slokken to swallow, and the G. forms cited under prec.]
trans. To swallow greedily.
Caxton may have read slont ende at in place of stont ende at in the Dutch original.
1481Caxton Reynard (Arb.) 55 The false keytyf ete and slonked her in so hungerly that he lefte neyther flessh ne bone. [1897F. S. Ellis Reynard 131 A cynic grin His face bore while he slonked her in.] |