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skulk

/skʌlk/

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What does skulk mean?

noun

  1. A group of foxes.
  2. (figuratively) A group of people seen as being fox-like (e.g. cunning, dishonest, or having nefarious plans).
  3. The act of moving in a stealthy or furtive way.
More meanings (6)

noun

  1. A stealthy or furtive gait or way of moving.
  2. The act of avoiding an obligation or responsibility.
  3. (obsolete) One who avoids an obligation or responsibility.

verb

  1. To stay where one cannot be seen, conceal oneself (often in a cowardly way or with the intent of doing harm).
  2. To move in a stealthy or furtive way; to come or go while trying to avoid detection.
  3. To avoid an obligation or responsibility.

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IPA pronunciation

/skʌlk/

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

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It is one thing to be idle and skulk and quite another to take a ship and murder a number of innocent men.
Robert Louis StevensonTreasure IslandProject Gutenberg ebook #120
“And was ever anything so meanly done as what I did—to skulk away like that from a man who was only civil and kind!”
Thomas HardyFar from the Madding CrowdProject Gutenberg ebook #27
More book examples (3)
Cowards skulk about the dead, pretending that they are fulfilling a duty, and many an army before now has been lost from this love of plunder.
PlatoThe RepublicTranslated by Benjamin JowettProject Gutenberg ebook #1497
He might well skulk behind the settle, on beholding such a bright, graceful damsel enter the house, instead of a rough-headed counterpart of himself, as he expected.
Emily BrontëWuthering HeightsProject Gutenberg ebook #768
Let him not peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy, a bastard, or an interloper, in the world which exists for him.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEssays by Ralph Waldo EmersonProject Gutenberg ebook #16643