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Definition: Skulking |
SkulkingAdjective1. Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; "a furtive manner"; "a lurking prowler"; "a sneak attack"; "stealthy footsteps"; "a surreptitious glance at his watch"; "someone skulking in the shadows". Noun1. Evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated; "they developed a test to detect malingering". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "skulking" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1611. (references) |
Synonyms: SkulkingSynonyms: furtive (adj), lurking (adj), sneak(a) (adj), sneaky (adj), stealthy (adj), surreptitious (adj), malingering (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Concealment | Obreptitious, furtive, stealthy, feline; skulking; Verb: surreptitious, underhand, hole and corner; sly; (cunning).; secretive, evasive; reserved, reticent, uncommunicative, buttoned up; close, close as wax; taciturn. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Skulking |
| English words defined with "skulking": furtive ♦ lurking ♦ Miching ♦ Skulkingly, sneak, sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious ♦ Tapinage. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "skulking": TO SHOOLE. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "skulking": Miching. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I don't see a lot of Sunday picnics in the offing. I see skulking in the shadows, hiding from the sunshe's a blossoming young girl! (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
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| "Skulking" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 93.18% of the time. "Skulking" is used about 44 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 93.18% | 41 | 53,521 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 6.82% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 44 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "skulking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
German | herumschleichend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | που παραμονεύει. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | shnoagyraght. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ulkingskay cleitheachd (secrecy). (various references) korkak (caitiff, chicken, chicken hearted, chicken-livered, cissy, coward, cowardly, Craven, dastardly, dingo, faint, faintheart, fainthearted, fearful, funk, funky, gutless, hen-hearted, lily livered, milksop, milquetoast, pigeon livered, pigeonhearted, poltroon, poor spirited, pusillanimous, rabbit, recreant, scary, sissy, sneak, sneaking, sneaky, spiritless, timid, unmanly, weak-spirited, white livered, yellow, yellow dog). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Skulking" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Sakulin, Schulkins. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-k-k-l-n-s-u" | |
-1 letter: sulking. | |
-2 letters: lungis, sluing. | |
-3 letters: ginks, gunks, iglus, kilns, kings, kinks, lings, links, lungi, lungs, lunks, skink, skulk, skunk, sling, slink, slung, slunk, suing, using. | |
-4 letters: gink, gins, gnus, guls, gunk, guns, iglu, ilks, inks, kiln, king, kink, kins, ling, link, lins, lugs, lung, lunk, nils, sign, silk, sing, sink, skin, slug, snug, sulk. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6B 75 6C 6B 69 6E 67 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.- ..- .-.. -.- .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101011 01110101 01101100 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S k u l k i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006B 0075 006C 006B 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5377877877758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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