"sculk" meaning in English

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      "form": "sculks",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "sculking",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "sculked",
      "tags": [
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        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "sculked",
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      ]
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1786, Boswell, Life Of Johnson, Volume 5:",
          "text": "It is a poor thing for a fellow to get drunk at night, and sculk to bed, and let his friends have no sport.'",
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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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  "word": "sculk"
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    {
      "form": "sculks",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sculking",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sculked",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sculked",
      "tags": [
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          "ref": "1786, Boswell, Life Of Johnson, Volume 5:",
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
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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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        }
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  "word": "sculk"
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