slinking

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of slink

plural slinkings

1. The act of one who slinks.

   [A]t midnight, after wanderings that were but slinkings away from cheerfulness and light, I slunk to my bed.

   1870–1871 (date written), Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “”, in Roughing It, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company [et al.], published 1872, →OCLC, page 428