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单词 stalking
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stalkingn.

/ˈstɔːkɪŋ/
Etymology: < stalk v.1 + -ing suffix1.
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.

/ˈstɔːkɪŋ/
Etymology: < stalk v.1 + -ing suffix2.
That stalks.
1. Stealthy. Obsolete.
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.
d. figurative. Of style, etc.: Pompous, grandiloquent. Obsolete.
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).
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