English Dictionary

lurker

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈlɜː.kə/

名詞

インターネット 俗語 イギリス英語 古語 方言 廃用

One who lurks. / (Internet slang) A user who observes a community rather than participating; someone who reads or takes advantage of content on a website, newsgroup, etc. but does not contribute.

日本語の意味

ひっそりと存在し、積極的な参加をせずに周囲を観察する者 / インターネット上で、コミュニティを閲覧するが投稿などの貢献をしない利用者

Despite the lively chat, a lurker quietly observed the conversation without participating.

にぎやかなチャットにもかかわらず、潜んでいる人が会話に参加せずに静かにそのやり取りを見ていた。

意味（1）

One who lurks.

It troubled me that there should have been a lurker on the stairs, on that night of all nights in the year, and I asked the watchman, on the chance of eliciting some hopeful explanation as I handed him a dram at the door, whether he had admitted at his gate any gentleman who had perceptibly been dining out?

意味（2）

(Internet slang) A user who observes a community rather than participating; someone who reads or takes advantage of content on a website, newsgroup, etc. but does not contribute.

However, less than half of lurkers went online that often. Those who post also are more likely than lurkers to use the Internet for both work and pleasure. Posters use the Internet to communicate more with others than lurkers do.

意味（3）

(archaic, UK, dialect) A small fishing-boat.

意味（4）

(obsolete slang, UK) An impostor; a quack.

In every large town sham official documents, with crests, seals, and signatures, can be got for half-a-crown. Armed with these, the patterer becomes a ‘lurker,’—that is, an impostor; his papers certify any and every ‘ill that flesh is heir to.’

lurkers （ plural ）