Definitions for skulk

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Spelling: [skuhlk]
IPA: /skʌlk/

Skulk is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 20 anagrams from letters in skulk (kklsu).

Definitions for skulk

noun

  1. a person who skulks.
  2. a pack or group of foxes.
  3. Rare. an act or instance of skulking.

verb (used without object)

  1. to lie or keep in hiding, as for some evil reason:
  2. to move in a stealthy manner; slink:
  3. British. to shirk duty; malinger.

Origin of skulk

1175-1225; Middle English Scandinavian (not in ON); compare Danish, Norwegian skulke, Swedish skolka play hooky

Examples for skulk

I suppose you thought that, being off duty, you could skulk in your cabin and do nothing.

He didn't mean to skulk like a whipped cur about his own decks.

This is not a time to manipulate or skulk into situations sideways, attempting to give a false impression of nonchalance.

Everything has seemed to cower, skulk, and hide, to run as if pursued.

He does not shuffle or prevaricate, dodge or skulk; but is honest, upright, and straightforward.

Instead, he must skulk in the thicket like a coyote until the man passed.

"We do not skulk any longer like rats or city men in dark holes," he told them.

Yet no matter how you may hide and skulk and hunt, never a glimpse of one of them will you get.

Sit there and skulk, while the others do the work, would you?

On coming within sight of us, the figure was seen to skulk and hide in the bushes.

Word Value for skulk
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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