# slank
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /slæŋk/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -æŋk

### Etymology 1
#### Verb

slank
* (rare) simple past and past participle of slink
** a. 1913 (published 1934), Frederick William Rolfe, The desire and pursuit of the whole
    So, when priests slank up to him, he civilly warned them off: if they merited kindness and persisted, he gave them double […]

### Etymology 2

Compare dialectal slonk (“depression, hollow, slough”), slunk (“slough, hollow; mud”).

#### Noun

slank (plural slanks)
* (US and UK, dialectal) A depression, a low place in the ground, especially one at the side of a river, lake, or cove which is filled with water during freshet(s).
** 1897, Ice and Refrigeration, page 269:[…] The board of health had prohibited the sale of ice cut from the "slank," because water in the "slank" was said to be polluted. The ice dealers, however, contend that the city of Patterson has no right to pollute the river and thus hurt their business, […] stopping the sale of "slank" ice, […]
** 1908, Atlantic Reporter, page 229:Van Zaun says that the fishing stopped 15 or 16 years before he testified - that would be about 1890. Mr. Shriner, one of the city's witnesses, says that he caught fish in one of the slanks in 1883 or 1885.
** 1913, Municipal Journal, volume 35, page 506:
    Passaic, N. J. - The storm will cause great delay in filling in the slank. The dirt which the workmen have been throwing in was washed away into the river.

### Anagrams

* Lanks, lanks

## Afrikaans
### Etymology

From Dutch slank, from Middle Dutch slanc.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /slaŋk/

### Adjective

slank (attributive slank, comparative slanker, superlative slankste)
* slender, slim

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Middle Dutch slanc, ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *slinkaną (“to crawl, creep”). Compare German schlank.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /slɑŋk/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: slank
* Rhymes: -ɑŋk

### Adjective

slank (comparative slanker, superlative slankst)
* slender, slim

#### Derived terms

* afslanken
* slanke den
* slanke klaproos
* slanke sleutelbloem
* slankheid

#### Descendants

* Afrikaans: slank

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Modified from English spelling "slang", except "ng" is a single letter and nasal

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /slɑŋk/
* Hyphenation: slank
* Rhymes: -ɑŋk

### Noun

slank
* slang

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From German schlank.

### Adjective

slank (neuter singular slankt, definite singular and plural slanke, comparative slankere, indefinite superlative slankest, definite superlative slankeste)
* slender, slim

### References

* “slank” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From German schlank.

### Adjective

slank (neuter singular slankt, definite singular and plural slanke, comparative slankare, indefinite plural slankast, definite plural slankaste)
* slender, slim

### References

* “slank” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Swedish
### Etymology

From German schlank (“slim”).

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

slank (comparative slankare, superlative slankast)
* slender
    Synonym: smärt

#### Declension

$^1$ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. $^2$ Dated or archaic. $^3$ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

### Verb

slank
* past indicative of slinka

### References

* slank in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* slank in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* slank in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)