skulk

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A group of foxes.

   “A skulk of foxes, a cowardice of curs are tonight’s traffic whispering in the yards and lanes.”

2. isim A group of people seen as being fox-like (e.g. cunning, dishonest, or having nefarious plans).

   “[…] a skulk of priests flapped out of the Church of San Geronimo, and women kneeling at novena put away their beads […]”

3. isim The act of moving in a stealthy or furtive way.

   “A part of their company, who had been sent out on a skulk, had not returned, and great anxiety was felt lest they had fallen into an ambush and been captured.”

4. isim A stealthy or furtive gait or way of moving.

   “His gait was something between a slouch and a skulk.”

5. isim The act of avoiding an obligation or responsibility.

   “[They took] good care […] to swing their hammocks as far abaft as possible, for the twofold purpose of having a skulk in their watch below at night, and to keep clear of the sprays, which usually pour down the gratings […]”

6. isim One who avoids an obligation or responsibility.

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7. fiil To stay where one cannot be seen, conceal oneself (often in a cowardly way or with the intent of doing harm).

   “Is whispering nothing? Is leaning cheek to cheek? is meeting noses? Kissing with inside lip? stopping the career Of laughing with a sigh?—a note infallible Of breaking honesty—horsing foot on foot? Skulking in corners? wishing clocks more swift?”

8. fiil To move in a stealthy or furtive way; to come or go while trying to avoid detection.

   “The residue like vnto the bare arssed rebels sculked to and fro; but in the end, they and the others were all dispersed, & durst not to appeare.”

9. fiil To avoid an obligation or responsibility.

   “Let discipline employ her wholesome arts, Let magistrates alert perform their parts, Not skulk or put on a prudential mask, As if their duty were a desp’rate task;”