单词 | stalking |
释义 | stalkingn. a. The action of stalk v.1; †stealthy movement (obsolete); pursuit of game by the method of stealthy approach. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > stealthy movement > [noun] stalkingc1000 creeping1565 hedge-creeping1579 stealing1581 steal1590 stealth1600 insinuation1608 slinking1611 sneakinga1657 prowl1803 creep1818 sneak1819 lurk1829 slink1853 pussyfooting1956 the world > food and drink > hunting > [noun] > stalking stalkc1450 stalking1503–4 still-hunting1831 still-hunt1858 sneak-hunting1878 c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 138 On sumere nihte hlosnode sum oðer munuc his færeldes and mid sleaccre stalcunge his fotswaðum filigde. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) ii. xix. 46 Yf the fende maye not dysceyue wyth stalkynge he puttyth to ferfull gastness and drede. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 472/1 Stalkynge, or soft and sly goynge, serptura. c1460 York Myst. xxx. 157 With no stalkyng nor no striffe be ye stressed. 1503–4 Act 19 Hen. VII c. 11 The grettest destruccion of Reed Deere and Falowe..is with Nettis..and stalking with beestis. 1533 in Archaeologia 25 522 Item delyvered to my hosbond..when he went a stalkynge for master tresurer. ?1553 Respublica (1952) i. iii. 6 Theare was..such herkenynge, suche stalking, suche watching, such spyinge. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xii. 86 The Esquimaux..by a patient process of stalking, succeed in getting within rifle shot. b. attributive as stalking engine, stalking gelding, stalking-ground, stalking ox, stalking-shoe, stalking-system, stalking-telescope. Also stalking-horse n. ΚΠ 1531 Privy Purse Exp. Hen. VIII (1827) 112 Paied to a servant of my lorde lisles in Rewarde for bringing of the Stalking Oxe, x s. 1531 Privy Purse Exp. Hen. VIII (1827) 132 For the mete of the kingis white stalking guelding. 1621 G. Markham Hungers Preuention x. 64 The last of these stalking Engines is the dead hedge of two or three yards long. 1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. I. xiv. 313 I resolved to try the stalking-system with these, and to hunt the troop of bulls with dogs and horses. 1861 G. H. Kingsley in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1860 116 When we reach the stalking-ground. 1900 F. T. Pollok & W. S. Thom Wild Sports Burma & Assam 253 My stalking shoes. 1925 A. G. Arbuthnot in G. Burrard Big Game Hunting 118 Good field glasses..and a good stalking-telescope are indispensable. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2021). stalkingadj. That stalks. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > [adjective] privyc1230 thiefly1395 stalkinga1400 slyc1440 insidious1545 clanculary1563 hedge-creeping1579 thievish1587 sneaking1590 tiptoe1593 peaking1595 underworking1605 stealthya1616 subtlea1616 surreptitious?1615 clancular1621 stealthful?1624 insidiary1625 worming1631 subterranean1643 clancularious1656 hugger-mugger1692 slink1792 slinking1841 instealing1844 thief-like1847 furtive1859 a1400 Pol., Rel., & L. Poems (1903) 254 [Death is] Stille and eke stalkinge. 2. a. Walking with great strides. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [adjective] > having specific manner of walking > with long steps striding1538 stalkinga1560 a1560 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Nyne Fyrst Bks. Eneidos (1562) ix. sig. Ffijv With stalking doubtful steps. 1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades iii. 45 Paris with stalking pace aduauncde himself to the Greekes warde. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. vii. sig. F7v His [the giant Orgoglio's] stalking steps are stayde Vpon a snaggy Oke. 1607 ‘W. S.’ Puritaine iii. 39 Haue you neuer seene a stalking-stamping Player. 1693 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Fable Acis, Polyphemus & Galatea in Examen Poeticum 87 Thus, warn'd in vain, with stalking pace he strode. 1757 T. Smollett Reprisal i. vi. 18 That proud, stalking Highlander. 1909 S. R. Crockett My Two Edinburghs 5 A long-legged, stalking, wonder-stricken boy of fifteen. b. said of long-legged birds. ΚΠ 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 61 That's the proper Time..For stalking Cranes to set the guileful Snare. View more context for this quotation 1847 H. Gough Gloss. Terms Brit. Heraldry 294 Stalking, walking: a term applied to long-legged birds. c. of ghosts. Also figurative of baleful agencies. ΚΠ 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals viii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 40 To call from Tombs the stalking Ghosts. 1792 M. Wollstonecraft Vindic. Rights Woman vi. 266 Like some other stalking mischiefs. 1831 T. P. Thompson in Westm. Rev. Jan. 201 The grand stalking wrong, that was at the bottom of the well or ill directed resistance of the community. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] > pompous stalking1602 large1608 pompous1750 hi cockalorum1783 1602 B. Jonson Poetaster iii. iv. sig. Fv Goe, he pens high, loftie, in a newe stalking straine. View more context for this quotation 1806 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 4 612 The stalking pomp of theatrical declamation. Derivatives ˈstalkingly adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > [adverb] softlyc1225 by stalea1240 privilya1250 slylyc1275 thieflyc1290 stealingly13.. by stealth1390 stalworthlya1400 theftfullyc1400 theftlyc1400 theftuouslyc1400 under veilc1425 thievishly?c1450 by theft1488 quietly1488 furtively1490 by surreption1526 hugger-muggera1529 in hugger-mugger1529 underhand1538 insidiously1545 creepingly1548 surreptiously1573 underboard1582 filchingly1583 sneakingly1598 underwater1600 slipperily1603 thief-likea1625 clandestinely1632 surreptitiously1643 thievously1658 clancularly1699 stownlins1786 stealthily1806 underhandedly1806 stolen-wise1813 on (upon, under, or by) the sly1818 round-the-corner1820 underhanded1823 stealthfully1828 slinkingly1830 slippingly1830 on the sneak?1863 sneakishly1867 behind backs1874 stalkingly1891 on the side1893 under the counter1926 underground1935 under the table1938 down and dirty1959 sneakily1966 1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors II. v. 124 Contempt of any supposed affectation, which was not ostentatiously, stalkingly practised to subdue the sex. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.c1000adj.a1400 |
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