http://wordie.org/words/slinky Comments for the word 'Slinky' http://wordie.org http://wordie.org/words/slinky#comments Can you guess me? A garment; not knitted, though, nor ornate, <br />not <a href="/words/slinky">slinky</a> skin-tight silk nor stretched-transparent tulle... <br /> <br />- Peter Reading, ?, from Tom O' Bedlam's Beauties, 1981 Sun, 29 Jun 2008 07:03:38 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/slinky#comments http://wordie.org/words/slinky#comments <i>A Slinky, or "Lazy-Spring," is a coil-shaped toy invented by mechanical engineer Richard James in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. <br /> <br />Slinkies come in various sizes. The shape is a simple helix, or coil design, of a ribbon of material, originally metal. The Slinky can "walk" down stairs as the coils stretch and reform as gravity moves them down each step.</i> <br />_Wikipedia <br /> Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:14:43 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/slinky#comments