单词 | lurking |
释义 | lurkingn. 1. The action of lurk v.; a hiding or lying concealed. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ ?1573 L. Lloyd Pilgrimage of Princes f. 164v The lurkyng dennes, and secrete caues of Cupide. lurking-hole n. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. a. That lurks; concealed, latent. Also, †skulking, lazy. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 245/1 Among the most famous of the ‘lurking patterers’. Derivatives ˈlurkingly adv. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1545adj.c1540 |
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