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hurkling

hurkling is the present participle of hurkle.

Meaning of hurkle

Verb

hurkle (third-person singular simple present hurkles, present participle hurkling, simple past and past participle hurkled)

  1. (dialectal, intransitive) To draw in the parts of the body, especially with pain or cold.
  2. to cower
  3. (dialectal) To contract, to pull in.

Questions about hurkling

What is hurkling the present participle of?
Hurkling is the present participle of hurkle.

Words near hurkling in the dictionary

  1. hurkle-durkled
  2. hurkle-durkles
  3. hurkle-durkling
  4. hurkled
  5. hurkles
  6. hurkling
  7. hurkura
  8. hurkurah
  9. hurkurahs
  10. hurkuras
  11. hurl

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hurkling (page history and authors); hurkle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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