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单词 lurking
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lurkingn.

/ˈləːkɪŋ/
Etymology: < lurk v.
1. The action of lurk v.; a hiding or lying concealed.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > lurking, skulking > [noun]
skulking1297
skulkery?a1400
lotingc1400
lurking1563
mitching1577
lusking1579
latitation1623
latitat1647
skulk1858
1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Idleness, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) ii. 518 If we give ourselves to idleness and sloth, to lurking and loitering.
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1360/1 She hath caused some of these..sowers of rebellion, to be discouered for all their secret lurkings.
1680 W. Temple Ess. Cure of Gout in Miscellanea 197 The approaches, or lurkings of the Gout..may indispose men to thought and to care.
1713 J. Addison in Guardian 2 June 2/1 By the Wandrings, Roarings, and Lurkings of his Lions he knew the way to every Man breathing.
1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller II. 98 Who knew every suspicious character, and..all his lurkings.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xvii. 31 After about three years of wandering and lurking he..made his peace with the government.
2. Thieves' slang. Stealing, fraudulent begging.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > [noun]
theft688
stalec950
stealc1200
stoutha1300
stealing13..
stealtha1325
lifting1362
briberya1387
stoutheriec1440
larcenya1475
larcerya1500
conveyancea1529
thieving1530
bribing1533
larcinc1535
embezzling1540
embezzlement1548
thiefdom?1549
theftdom1566
bribering1567
milling1567
thievery1568
larcinry1634
panyarring1703
abduction1766
smugging1825
pickup1846
lurking1851
make1860
tea-leafing1899
snitching1933
lapping1950
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 250/2 After a career of incessant ‘lurking’ and deceit.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 363/2 Many modes of thieving as well as begging are termed ‘lurking’.

Compounds

General attributive.
lurking-corner n.
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1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 18v Whan the nyghte and lurking corners, giueth lesse occasion to vnthriftinesse, than lyght daye and opennes.
lurking-den n.
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?1573 L. Lloyd Pilgrimage of Princes f. 164v The lurkyng dennes, and secrete caues of Cupide.
lurking-hole n.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > a secret place, hiding place > [noun] > lair, den
outlay1563
lurking-hole1567
lurking-place1571
tod hole1607
1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 6 The most bolde and aduenterous men, are said, to seeke out the lurking holes of the Dragon.
1678 Locke Let. to Grenville 6 Dec. in H. R. F. Bourne Life J. Locke (1876) I. vii. 394 No garrisons unreduced, no lurking-holes unsearched.
1773 Ann. Reg. 1772 32/2 He was found hid in a chimney, covered with soot; a lurking-hole suited to its inhabitant.
lurking-place n.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > a secret place, hiding place > [noun] > lair, den
outlay1563
lurking-hole1567
lurking-place1571
tod hole1607
1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xvii. 12) He nameth their Dennes or privy lurking-places.
1611 Bible (King James) Psalms x. 8. He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages. View more context for this quotation
1751 Mem. Lady of Quality in T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle III. lxxxviii. 208 I..was..discovered..and hunted out of my lurking place.
1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. IV. x. 32 He..hies to the old lurking-place.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

lurkingadj.

Etymology: < lurk v. + -ing suffix2.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈlurking.
a. That lurks; concealed, latent. Also, †skulking, lazy.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > [adjective] > hidden
dighela1000
dernc1000
wriena1250
privyc1300
unshewedc1386
wrapped1398
quatc1425
tectc1440
blinda1522
coucheda1522
dark1532
lurkingc1540
velated1542
hiddena1547
inclusive1554
concealed1558
secret1559
occult1567
disguised1594
occulted1598
derned1600
shrouded1600
latent1605
abstrused1608
supposed1608
unshown1614
enshielda1616
retruse1623
dissembled1631
researched1636
recondite1649
delitescent1653
larved1654
tected1657
bedilt1660
bosomed1667
inhidden1674
underground1677
abditive1727
secreted1756
unextruded1808
unprotruded1812
undisplayed1822
larvated1832
dissimulated1838
latescent1852
squat1956
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > lurking, skulking > [adjective]
loutinga1325
louring?a1400
lurkingc1540
mitching1576
meechering1615
meeching1616
skulking1639
couchant1642
lurching1661
sliving1661
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 1001 But a Sourdyng with sourgrem sanke in his hert, And a lourekand lust to Lamydon the kyng.
1570 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xiii. 176 Sa sall we se and heir Quhat lurkand lubers will tak thir Lymmers parts.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 1172 I..foretold The danger, and the lurking Enemie That lay in wait. View more context for this quotation
1682 N. Grew Anat. Plants iv. ii. vi. 174 Keeping the Plants warm, and thereby enticing the young lurking Flowers to come abroad.
1705 G. Stanhope Paraphr. Epist. & Gospels I. 76 He will disclose many lurking motives.
1743 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer (ed. 2) II. 107 It does..draw forth that lurking, keen, sour Quality that the Wood has imbibed.
1790 Coll. Voy. round World IV. ii. 1274 We discovered a lurking rock, in the middle of one of the beds of weeds.
1815 W. Wordsworth White Doe of Rylstone vii. 120 Why tell of mossy rock, or tree, By lurking Dernbrook's pathless side?
1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) IV. xvii. 91 And William..may have felt some lurking sympathy for those who had drawn on themselves the censures of the Church.
b. slang. Following the occupation of a ‘lurker’ or begging impostor.
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1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 245/1 Among the most famous of the ‘lurking patterers’.

Derivatives

ˈlurkingly adv.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > lurking, skulking > [adverb]
lurkingly1549
in mitching wise1577
mitcherlike1586
skulkingly1847
alurk1872
1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Jude Argt. f. xxiv That kynde of men shall lurkingly crepe among the flocke of Christyanes.
1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xviii. 149 Lurkingly, and in covert.
1929 R. B. Cunninghame Graham Thirty Tales & Sketches 178 They eyed the women just as a starving dog looks at a butcher's shop, sideways and lurkingly.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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