Skulk

Definition: Skulk

Skulk

Verb

1. Lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner.

2. Avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill.

3. Move stealthily; "The lonely man skulks down the main street all day".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "skulk" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonyms: Skulk

Concealment

Be concealed; Verb: suffer an eclipse; retire from sight, couch; hide oneself; lie hid, lie in perdu, lie in close; lie in ambush (ambush); seclude oneself; lurk, sneak, skulk, slink, prowl; steal into, steal out of, steal by, steal along; play at bopeep, play at hide and seek; hide in holes and corners; still hunt.

Fear

Hesitate; (be irresolute); falter, funk, cower, crouch; skulk; (cowardice); let " I dare not" wait upon "I would "; take fright, take alarm; start, wince, flinch, shy, shrink; fly; (avoid).

Crosswords: Skulk

Music

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And hunger did not skulk about, but the world was soft and easy, and a man could reach the place he started for.

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Expressions using "skulk": skulk after ♦ skulk away ♦ skulk off. Additional references.

Albanian

fshihem (disappear, efface oneself, elope, fade, Harbor, harbour, hide away, hide oneself, Lam, lurk, rub oneself), eci vjedhurazi, dal tinëz. (various references)

Arabic 

‏فهم (accept, apprehend, apprehension, brain, catch, comprehend, comprehension, conceive, conception, discern, discernment, grasp, hear, hear of, intelligence, know, know of, learn, learn about, make out, penetrate, perceive, perception, pick out, pierce, put across, puzzle out, realization, realize, see, see daylight, see the light, seeing, sense, sort out, take in, twig, understand, understanding, understood), ‏تهرب (avoidance, be truant, beg the question, evade, fight shy of, fly in the face of, get in, hedge, malinger, shirk, shun, sidestep, swing the lead), ‏توارى (disappear, duck, hide, lurk), ‏تسلل (crept, infiltrate, infiltration, insinuate, nose, penetrate, percolate, permeation, plant, sneak, spy out, steal in, steal out, stealth), ‏المتسلل. (various references)

Bulgarian 

спотайвам се (lie doggo, lurk), кръшкач (quitter, shirk, shirker, slacker, soldier, truant, wag), кръшкам (scrimpshank, skive, slack, soldier), движа се дебнешком, дебна (ambush, be on the lurk, be on the prowl, mouse, prowl, shadow, slink about, sneak, stalk, trail, watch, waylay). (various references)

Czech

potulovat se (gad about, hover about, prowl, ramble, range, roam, rove, stroll, tramp, vagabond), krást se (creep). (various references)

Farsi 

گروه (A, Administration, Army, Assembly, Bunch, Class, Clinch, Clique, Cluster, Cohort, Company, Concourse, Corps, Covey, Crowd, Ensign, Flock, Gang, Group, Kind, Outfit, Pack, Rout, School, Seaboard, Shoal, Team, Throng), اززیرمسلولیت فرارکردن , ادم بی بندوبار (Slop), دزدکی حرکت کردن . (various references)

French

rôder en se cachant, entrer furtivement. (various references)

German

schleichen (crawl, creep, prowl, sidle, slink, slunk, sneak, steal, tiptoe, to skulk, to sneak). (various references)

Greek 

κρύβομαι (abscond, hide, lurk), κρύπτομαι (hide), ενεδρεύω (ambuscade, ambush, lie in wait, lurk, snoop, waylay). (various references)

Hebrew 

לארוב (ambush, lie in wait, lurk), ל�"סתתר (hide, hide oneself, lurk). (various references)

Hungarian

leselkedő (lurker), lógós (bum, hanger-on, malingerer, moss-back, quitter, shirker, skiver, slacker, work-shy), lógó (aerial, dangling, floppy, hanging, lap, pendant, pendent, pendulous, scallywag), ólálkodó (slink). (various references)

Italian

nascondersi (abscond, burrow, ensconce, hide, hide oneself, lurk), muoversi furtivamente (sidle, steal), celarsi (hide, lurk). (various references)

Manx

shnoageyder. (various references)

Pig Latin

ulkskay

Portuguese

ocultar-se por medo, fugir ao dever, evitar ser observado, esconder-se (abscond, lurk, occult), atacar pela calada. (various references)

Romanian

sta pitit, se sustrage (abscond, absent oneself from, back, balk, baulk, evade, shrink away, wriggle), furişa (sneak, squeeze). (various references)

Russian 

красться (slink, sneak, snuck, tiptoe). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

skrivati se (doggo: lie doggo, hide, lurk), zabušavati (avoid, malinger, shirk), zabušavanje (malingering). (various references)

Spanish

zafarse (throw off), remolón (laggard, lagger, shirker), escurrir el bulto (shirk, swing the lead), esconderse (abscond, burrow, go in, go to earth, hide, hide away, hole up, lie up). (various references)

Swedish

smyga sig (mooch, sidle, sneak, steal), maska (finesse, ladder, mesh, Mike, run, scrimshank, slack up, stitch, swing the lead). (various references)

Thai

แสร้งทำเป็นป่วย (เพื่อเลี่ยงงาน), ผู้หลบหนี (runaway), หลบ (dodge, duck down, duck into, fudge, lurk). (various references)

Turkish

sinsice dolaşmak (prowl, sneak about), yan çizmek (be evasive, cop out, evade, funk, scrimshank, shirk, sidestep, sneak out of), kaytarmak (dodge, duck, evade, loaf, loaf about, loaf around, scrimshank, shirk, shuffle, skip, skive, skive off, sneak out of, swing the lead), kötü niyetle gizlenmek, gizlenmek (bury oneself, ensconce oneself, go underground, hide oneself, hide out, lie low, lurk, shelter oneself, take cover), fırsat kollamak (bide one's time, prowl, wait for an opportunity). (various references)

Ukrainian

ховатися (abscond, burrow, hide, hide away, hide out, hide up, lurk, nest, nestle, shelter oneself, shroud, take cover), крастися (creep, leer, lurk, prowl, sneak), гультяй (dangler, good for nothing, ne'er do well, rambler, wassailer, wretch), огинатися, нероба (bauchle, dangler, dawdler, dead beat, do nothing, do-naught, fribble, good for nothing, layabout, loafer, loiterer, loon, ne'er do well, rambler, scamp, shack, spalpeen, waster). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người trốn việc (quitter, shirk, shirker, skulker). (various references)

Welsh

ystelcian (loaf, loiter), llechu (hide, lurk, shelter), bachu (bend, grapple, hook). (various references)

lutian. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "skulk": skulked, skulker, skulkers, skulking, skulks. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Skulk" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sculi, skalk, skek, skel, skluk, skol, skul, skulke, skulle, skullk, skulu, Sokolik, squl, sulkk. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: sulk.

-3 letters: us.

+1 letter: kulaks, skulks.

+2 letters: mukluks, skulked, skulker.

+3 letters: husklike, karakuls, knuckles, skulkers, skulking, tusklike.

+4 letters: duckwalks, kerplunks, knucklers, mucklucks.

+5 letters: knuckliest.