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lurkish

adj

Etymology

From lurk + -ish.

  1. derived from *lūrukōną✻ — “to be lying in wait, lurk”
  2. derived from *lúrka✻
  3. inherited from lurken
  4. suffixed as lurkish — “lurk + -ish”

Definitions

  1. Tending to lurk

    Tending to lurk; somewhat lurky.

    • They love no idle bench-whistlers nor lurkish faitors; for yoong and old are wholly addicted to thrieing the men commonlie to traffike, the women to spinning and carding.
    • Those who are lurkish, are open to the attacks of every ingenious scoundrel whose art will not alarm their indolence.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for lurkish. 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