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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To lie in hiding, as out of cowardice or bad conscience; lurk.
  2. v. To move about stealthily.
  3. v. To evade work or obligation; shirk.
  4. n. One who hides, lurks, or practices evasion.
  5. n. A congregation of vermin, especially foxes, or of thieves. See Synonyms at flock1.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To withdraw into a corner or into a close or obscure place for concealment; lie close or hidden from shame, fear of injury or detection, or desire to injure another; shrink or sneak away from danger or work; lurk.
  2. To produce or bring forward clandestinely or improperly.
  3. n. Same as skulker.
  4. n. A number of foxes together; hence, a number of other animals or of persons together: as, a skulk of thieves.

Wiktionary

  1. n. a group of foxes
  2. n. one who skulks; a skulker
  3. v. to conceal oneself; to hide
  4. v. to sneak around, sneak about
  5. v. to shirk; to avoid obligation

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To hide, or get out of the way, in a sneaking manner; to lie close, or to move in a furtive way; to lurk.
  2. n. A number of foxes together.
  3. n. One who, or that which, skulks.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner
  2. v. avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill
  3. v. move stealthily

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English skulken, of Scandinavian origin (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English skulken, of Scandinavian origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (3)

Words with the same meaning

  1. lurk
  1. sneak
  1. shirk

equivalents (1)

Other words for ‘skulk’

  1. skulker

hypernyms (7)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. hide
  1. conceal
  1. shrink from
  1. shirk
  1. fiddle
  1. goldbrick
  1. walk

rhymes (4)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Hulk
  1. bulk
  1. hulk
  1. sulk

reverse dictionary (19)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. scowk
  2. sculk
  3. meach
  1. derne
  2. hedge
  3. owl
  1. shab
  2. slive
  3. dern
  1. lunge
  2. lurk
  3. mooch
  1. mich
  2. lower
  3. miche
  1. mouch
  2. muzzle
  3. skulk
  1. soger

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  1. animals
  1. concealment
  1. collective nouns
  1. manner
  1. _mannerism

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  • catkisses This is what my cat does in the back yard! Nov 5, 2009

  • yarb With this I left him, and skulked out of the town, not paying my respects tomy other benefactors; but giving them a thousand blessings from my heart.

    - Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 1 ch. 13 Sep 12, 2008

  • chained_bear Boulder-footed? I love it! Oh, ha, ha, ha! Mar 20, 2008

  • bilby I don't know how anybody/anycreature could sneak around with a word as clumsy and boulder-footed as this. Besides, it resembles skunk so much that I think you'd smell a skulk from half a mile away. Mar 20, 2008

  • reesetee You had entrails in your college dining hall? Mar 20, 2008

  • chained_bear Whenever I hear this word, I think of some college friends who tickled themselves to death by uttering the following sentence (context not important): "He can't very well skulk out of the dining hall, entrails in tow!" Mar 20, 2008

  • skipvia A group of foxes Nov 16, 2007

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