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▪ I. skulking, vbl. n.|ˈskʌlkɪŋ|
[f. skulk v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb, in various senses.
1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 5130 Bote hii þus mid scolkinge vpe þe englisse wende. 1338R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 3 Þei went tille Snawdone..To purueie þam a skulkyng, on þe Englis eft to ride. 1375Barbour Bruce vii. 130 Thai var fayis to the kyng, And thoucht to cum in-to scowkyng [v.r. sculking], And duell with hym. c1440Promp. Parv. 451/1 Sculkynge, cleptura. 1611Cotgr., Tapissement,..a crooching, skowking, or ducking downe. 1659Hammond On Ps. lxxxviii. 18 The lying hid, and sculking of friends. 1751J. Brown Shaftesb. Charac. 9 These hussars..by sudden evolutions and timely skulking, can do great mischiefs. 1805Med. Jrnl. XIV. 415 Intemperance and skulking were never so little practised in any fleet as in this. 1867F. Francis Angling ix. (1880) 333 The artifices of salmon are multifarious... ‘Skulking’ is a common one.
b. attrib., as skulking hole, skulking place.
1535Coverdale 1 Macc. ix. 40 Then Ionathas and they that were with him, rose out of their skoukinge places agaynst them. 1655W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. xiv. (1669) 301/1 The Quakers..have their skulking hole to which they run from the Scripture. 1831Scott Ct. Rob. ii, The light-footed Grecian..dodged his pursuer from one skulking place to another.
▪ II. ˈskulking, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. That skulks or hides; sneaking, lurking.
1619Fletcher False One i. i, I bought it Of a skulking Scribler for two Ptolomies. 1639Lismore Papers Ser. ii. (1888) IV. 37 The malignitie of some Skulkinge enviers of my preferment. 1728Morgan Hist. Algiers II. v. 320 What have we to do with the History of a Crew of starving, beggarly, skulking Pyrates? 1755Gentl. Mag. XXV. 571 The Moravians..are apprehensive of a visit from some of their skulking parties. 1803Naval Chron. X. 82 The skulking French row-boats..make sure work of taking prizes. 1828L. M. Hawkins Annaline I. 171 You gave that skulking rascal..money when you spoke to him. 1878R. B. Smith Carthage 208 A few skulking marauders.
fig.1654H. L'Estrange Chas. I (1655) 110 An old skulking statute long since out of use.
2. Characterized by skulking.
1658W. Burton Itin. Antoninus 39 Such as by stealth, and in a skulking way, did what they did. 1674Marvell Reh. Transp. ii. 38 That anonymous and sculking method both of Writing and Licensing. 1742Young Nt. Th. viii. 487 But thy Great Soul this skulking glory scorns. 1826Scott Woodst. xx, That skulking and rambling mode of life.
Hence ˈskulkingly adv.
1847in Webster. 1878C. J. Vaughan Earnest Words for E. Men 118 The good thing [presented itself] timidly, skulkingly. |