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lurkish

lurkish adjective: tending to lurk; somewhat lurky.

Adjective

lurkish (comparative more lurkish, superlative most lurkish)

  1. (rare) Tending to lurk; somewhat lurky.
    • They love no idle bench-whistlers nor lurkish faitors; for yoong and old are wholly addicted to thrieing the men commonlie to traffike, the women to spinning and carding.1894, Journal of the Waterford & South-East of Ireland, volume 1, page 31
    • Would God (I say) that the holy house were not pestered at this day with such hypocrites and damnable sort of lurkish, loitering lubbers, who (notwithstanding their great blockishness their palpable ignorance and extreme want of learning) […]1905, Report of the Commissioner of Education, volume 1, page 344

Forms of lurkish

comparativemore lurkish
superlativemost lurkish

Origin of lurkish

From lurk + -ish.

Questions about lurkish

What does lurkish mean?
Lurkish means tending to lurk; somewhat lurky.
What part of speech is lurkish?
Lurkish is an adjective.

Words near lurkish in the dictionary

  1. lurkiness
  2. lurking
  3. lurkingly
  4. lurkingness
  5. lurkings
  6. lurkish
  7. lurkman
  8. lurkmen
  9. lurkmoar
  10. lurkmore
  11. lurks

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