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Definition of Sculk
1. to skulk [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: skulk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sculk
Literary usage of Sculk
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1801)
"... Meanly to sculk, or enviously rave. Is plainly thine :—no free-begotten slave,
And where sits G—n — e ; his the lyre all strung, Those courts where ..."
2. A Practical Dictionary of the English and German Languages by Felix Flügel, Johann Gottfried Flügel (1861)
"Sport-s. muster (of peacocks), sculk (of foxes); 2. Script, fold; 3..fe- crowd,
multitude ; in >"i и gc^enb, jte^enb, *c., gregarious ; П. сотр. ..."
3. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"Der. scutt-le (3), qv sculk, SKULK, to hide oneself, lurk. (Scand. ... Low G.
schulen, to sculk, to lurk in a hiding-place; from Dan. situi, ..."
4. A Dictionary of the Welsh Language: Explained in English; with Numerous by William Owen Pughe (1832)
"(tad) A tool, an Instrument. Tech, a. es-. (te—ech) A sculk, a lurk, a bide. ...
To sculk continually. ... to become disposed to sculk. ..."
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