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lurkership

noun

Etymology

From lurker + -ship.

  1. derived from *lūrukōną✻ — “to be lying in wait, lurk”
  2. derived from *lúrka✻
  3. inherited from lurken
  4. suffixed as lurker — “lurk + er”
  5. suffixed as lurkership — “lurker + ship”

Definitions

  1. The state or quality of being a lurker.

    • I'm going back into lurkership - but I'll probably pop up from time to time, be warned!
    • Sorry, have to come out of my state of lurkership to respond, completely off-topic, and say as far as I know it's actually only America (maybe Canada?) that has a silent 'h' in herbs.
    • I was just starting emerge from lurkership into this discussion group when it has lately become swamped by this non-controversy.

  2. The lurkers who frequent a newsgroup, message board, etc., taken as a group.

    • This newsgroup might have a higher lurkership than normal because of the theat^([sic]) of harassment from the cult, the general level of flammage and spam, and the controversial nature of the topic.
    • I should imagine we have quite a large lurkership, who have subscribed and are desperately waiting for a few meaty threads.
    • The lurkership has expanded because I've given each of my flying monkies^([sic]) computers!

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for lurkership. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA