"sculk" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: sculks [present, singular, third-person], sculking [participle, present], sculked [participle, past], sculked [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} sculk (third-person singular simple present sculks, present participle sculking, simple past and past participle sculked)
  1. Alternative spelling of skulk Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: skulk
    Sense id: en-sculk-en-verb-Ud-5VJcW Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1915, Aphra Behn, The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. III:",
          "text": "No, Sir, you had good Clothes when you came first, but they dwindled daily, till they dwindled to this old Campaign--with tan'd coloured Lining--once red--but now all Colours of the Rain-bow, a Cloke to sculk in a Nights, and a pair of piss-burn'd shammy Breeches.",
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        {
          "ref": "1910, Jonathan Swift, Poems (Volume II.):",
          "text": "Let other nice lords sculk at home from the wars, Prank'd up and adorn'd with garters and stars, Which but twinkle like those in a cold frosty night; While to yours you are adding such lustre and light, That if you proceed, I'm sure very soon 'Twill be brighter and larger than the sun or the moon: A blazing star, I foretell, 'twill prove to the Gaul, That portends of his empire the ruin and fall.",
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