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lurksome

adj

Etymology

From lurk + -some.

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

Definitions

  1. Characterised or marked by lurking

    Characterised or marked by lurking; lurky

    • Whereas, The strong and lurksome hand of death has again entered the home of one of our members and taken from it our beloved brother and treasurer, [...]
    • Shrink not in fear of lurksome difficulties or disturbances.
    • Next she fetched the large stone mortar where it hunkered down all lurksome in Darkhouse.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for lurksome. 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