skulkern.
/ˈskʌlkə/, U.S. /ˈskəlkər/ 1.
a. One who skulks, in various senses. †Also as a name for the hare.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > [noun] > moving softly or stealthily > one who
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the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [noun] > skulking > skulker
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flincher1598
quitter1665
slink1824
turnback1843
sneakaway1900
trouble-shirker1908
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > lurking, skulking > [noun] > one who lurks
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lurkera1325
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Lepus (hares) > lepus europaeus (hare)
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babbart?a1300
ballart?a1300
bigge?a1300
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grasshopper?a1300
lightfoot?a1300
long-ear?a1300
make-fare?a1300
pintail?a1300
pollart?a1300
purblind?a1300
roulekere?a1300
scot?a1300
scotewine?a1300
side-looker?a1300
sitter?a1300
westlooker?a1300
wort-cropper?a1300
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cawel-herta1325
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furze cata1325
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straw deera1325
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chavarta1400
soillarta1400
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scutc1440
coward1486
wata1500
bawtiec1536
puss1575
watkin1585
malkin1706
pussy1715
bawd1785
lion1825
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1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VII. 491 He haþ wiþ hym flemed men and scolkers aboute.
a1400 Names of Hare in MS. Digby 168 b Þe wint-swifft, þe sculkere, Þe hare-serd, þe heg roukere.
?a1400 Morte Arth. 3119 Than skyftes þes skouerours,..Diskoueres for skulkers that they no skathe lymppene.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) ix. l. 308 Skour weyll about for scoukaris in the se.
c1530 Pore Helpe 384 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. III. 266 A man that wyl not vary, And one that is no sculker.
1728 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 401 The numbers that are for laying him aside.., too often hedgers and skulkers.
1800 S. T. Coleridge tr. F. Schiller Death Wallenstein i. vii. 24 Did we conjure thee not to let that skulker..pass the gates of Pilsen!
1841 C. Mackay Mem. Pop. Delusions II. 30 He..was now a solitary skulker in the forests.
1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood xv. 116 It's good advice, whichever of you skulkers gave it.
b. spec. (See quot. 1785.)
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the world > health and disease > ill health > sick person > [noun] > imaginary > pretending illness
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skulker1785
sconcer1843
society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > type of soldier generally > [noun] > malingerer or shirker
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skulker1785
king's bargain1867
carpet soldier1869
chocolate-cream soldier1894
chocolate soldier1895
snow-bird1905
the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > undutifulness > undutiful person > [noun] > avoiding > by pretending illness
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sconcer1843
the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > [noun] > avoiding an action or condition > avoiding duty, work, or exertion > one who
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loundererc1425
old soldier1722
malingerer1785
skulker1785
shirker1799
shirk1818
slink1824
schemer1843
sconcer1843
scrimshanker1882
scrimshank1886
sooner1892
Weary Willie1896
slacker1898
slackster1901
sugarer1904
work-shy1904
gold brick1905
tired Tim (also Timothy)1906
lead-swinger1917
piker1917
gold-bricker1919
slinker1919
poler1938
skiver1941
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Skulker, a soldier who by feigned sickness or other pretences evades his duty, a sailor who keeps below in time of danger [etc.].
1826 A. C. Hutchison Pract. Observ. Surg. (ed. 2) 191 The plan I adopted, when serving afloat, to lessen the sick list of sculkers, as they are technically termed in the navy.
1887 Spectator 9 July 932/1 Serjeant Lawrence..was particularly hard on skulkers.
2. A moth, Graphiphora latens.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Caradrinidae > graphiphora latens
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1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 54 The Sculker..appears in summer. Rare. South of Scotland.
3. Ornithology. (See quots.)
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1867 H. Spencer Princ. Biol. II. vi. viii. §349 ‘Skulkers’ is the descriptive title applied to the Water-Rail, the Corn-Crake, and their allies, which evade enemies by concealment.
1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 241 Their shy retiring habit of skulking among the rushes has caused them to be sometimes called Latitores (skulkers).
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