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▪ I. † ˈsharking, vbl. n.1 Obs.
[f. shark v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of shark v.1
1602Lyly Entert. at Harefield Wks. 1902 I. 499 If euer I be brought to answere my sinnes, God forgiue me my sharking, and lay vsurie to my charge. I am a Mariner. 1628Earle Microcosm., Poor Man (Arb.) 101 His best seruices [are] suspected as handsome sharking, and tricks to get money. 1674Staveley Rom. Horseleech vii. 51 All immaginable shifts, sharking, and tricks were used.
▸ spec. Brit. slang. The active pursuit of a sexual partner (usually by a man), esp. at a social gathering and in a manner regarded as predatory. Cf. shark v.1
[1989Today 16 Mar. 21/1 He has been awarded his ‘sharking’ colours to add to his official college colours in the Queen's College [Cambridge] rugby squad... ‘We give sharking colours for people who go for things in a big way whether it's drinking, womanising or playing hard.’ ]1992Anyone for Sharking? in alt.usage.english (Usenet newsgroup) 11 Feb. The phrase ‘in-group sharking’ was used to describe a lot of the friendly flirting that's been going on in soc.bi recently. 1992Times (Nexis) 13 Oct. Female freshers [at Oxford] are also warned of rugger-buggers' lascivious attentions, or ‘sharking’. 1997J-17 Oct. 30 (heading) Sharking, scoping, nabbing, snagging—whatever you call it, try our quiz to find out your style and how to work it to the max. 1999S. Stewart Sharking viii. 136 ‘So, are you coming home with me then?’ ‘Got any Es?’ At the sniff of a deal, Touchy's sharking snapped to business mode.
▪ II. sharking, ppl. a.|ˈʃɑːkɪŋ|
[f. shark v.1 + -ing2.]
1. That ‘sharks’; † that oppresses by extortion (obs.); that cheats, steals, cadges, or sponges.
1608Day Hum. out of Br. iii. i, Lend me this iewell. Flo. Iewell? away you sharking companion. 1615R. Brathwait Strappado 150 That..Harbours the sharking Lawyer for his pence. 1692Wood Ath. Oxon. II. 157 This Hicks..was a sharking and indigent Fellow. 1760C. Johnston Chrysal i. iv. I. 22 Making my fortune a prey to every sharking projector who flattered my vanity with promises of success. 1851Borrow Lavengro lxvii, Some sharking priest who has come over to proselytise and plunder. 1856Masson Ess. iii. 78 Nothing to be seen under the sun but hypocritical priests, sharking attorneys [etc.].
b. Of a condition, quality, or manner, etc.
1613Jackson Creed i. 160 Præsaging that rude and sharking life, whereunto this wilde slippes progenie was ordained. 1629Maxwell tr. Herodian (1635) 373 The procurator..hath received his reward, being slaine by our hands, for his barbarous sharking Cruelty. 1676South Serm. (1 Cor. iii. 19) (1692) 433 We are degenerated into a mean, sharking, fallacious, undermining Way of Converse. a1694Tillotson Serm. xxxi. (1742) II. 364 Those miserable and sharking shifts which the foolish virgins were driven to, of begging or borrowing, or buying oil. 1705Dunton Life & Errors (1818) I. vii. 289 They [Parents] should not put their Children on any sharking tricks to supply their wants. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. vi. ii. (1820) 360 His hair..added not a little to his sharking demeanour.
†2. Behaving like a shark (the fish). nonce-use.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage ix. xv. (1614) 917 By their Dogges at Land they worried them: and in their Pearle-fishing exposed them to the rauening Sharkes, themselues more dogged and sharking than the bruite creatures.
Hence † ˈsharkingly adv.
1659Torriano, Alla-scrócca, sharkingly, shiftingly. 1665Wood Life (O.H.S.) II. 49 He..looked sharkingly, having a reddish-blew nose and cheeks of the same colour. 1670R. Coke Disc. Trade 67 From hence it is that the Trade of England is managed..sharkingly by the Traders. |