slink

[< Brit.dial. slink, adj., lean, weak, inferior]

Esp. Nfld

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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an immature or undernourished cod.

Quotations

1771

We had three slinks in the net.

1955

"The slinks and the scrod don't git a chanst. . . ."