slinge v also slindge [phonetics unavailable]. OED ~ v dial (1747-); EDD v1 1 'to slink off or about; lounge about idly' Sc Ir D; Kilkenny Lexicon. To avoid one's share of work; to idle, loaf; to play truant from school.
1924 ENGLAND 136 You go alang an' find 'em out, an' ask who's kickin' an' slindgin' [loafing]. I'll do the rest! 1927 Christmas Messenger 47 ~ To skulk away from work, or to loaf. 1937 DEVINE 46 ~ To shirk duty; to mooch from school. [1958] 1965 PEACOCK (ed) i, 133 "The Herring Gibbers": For every man is willing but most of them are slack, / They'll work before his face and they'll slinge behind his back. P 127-73 All he did was slinge! P 148-79 They were never working—always slingin' about.
