Lurkish

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Tending to lurk; somewhat lurky. rare

    "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."

Example

More examples

"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."

Etymology

From lurk + -ish.

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