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stalkerish

UK/ˈstɔːkəɹɪʃ/

stalkerish adjective: of, pertaining to, or resembling a stalker.

Adjective

stalkerish (comparative more stalkerish, superlative most stalkerish)

  1. (informal) Of, pertaining to, or resembling a stalker.
    • “There was something in the cemetery last night,” she told her Watcher. “I mean, something more than the usual. Something not of the undead family. A big, nasty something. I couldn’t see it clearly, but it was doing the menacing thing behind me. Stalkerish. And it, well, it giggled.”1999, Laura Anne Gilman, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Visitors, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 20
    • They think it's weird. Some people think it's a cute weird in a quirky way, some a creepy weird in a stalkerish, he's hiding bodies in a barrel way.2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 1

Forms of stalkerish

comparativemore stalkerish
superlativemost stalkerish

Origin of stalkerish

From stalker + -ish.

Questions about stalkerish

What does stalkerish mean?
Stalkerish means of, pertaining to, or resembling a stalker.
What part of speech is stalkerish?
Stalkerish is an adjective.
How do you pronounce stalkerish?
Stalkerish is pronounced /ˈstɔːkəɹɪʃ/ (UK).

Words near stalkerish in the dictionary

  1. stalkees
  2. stalker
  3. stalkerazzi
  4. stalkerazzo
  5. stalkerhood
  6. stalkerish
  7. stalkerlike
  8. stalkers
  9. stalkerware
  10. stalkery
  11. stalkest

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