English Dictionary

skulk

/skʌlk/

verb

To stay where one cannot be seen, conceal oneself (often in a cowardly way or with the intent of doing harm). / To move in a stealthy or furtive way; to come or go while trying to avoid detection.

The cat likes to skulk in the bushes.

意味（1）

To stay where one cannot be seen, conceal oneself (often in a cowardly way or with the intent of doing harm).

Is whispering nothing?

Is leaning cheek to cheek? is meeting noses?

Kissing with inside lip? stopping the career

Of laughing with a sigh?—a note infallible

Of breaking honesty—horsing foot on foot?

Is whispering nothing? Is leaning cheek to cheek? is meeting noses? Kissing with inside lip? stopping the career Of laughing with a sigh?—a note infallible Of breaking honesty—horsing foot on foot? Skulking in corners? wishing clocks more swift?

意味（2）

To move in a stealthy or furtive way; to come or go while trying to avoid detection.

The residue like vnto the bare arssed rebels sculked to and fro; but in the end, they and the others were all dispersed, & durst not to appeare.

意味（3）

To avoid an obligation or responsibility.

Let discipline employ her wholesome arts,

Let magistrates alert perform their parts,

Not skulk or put on a prudential mask,

Let discipline employ her wholesome arts, Let magistrates alert perform their parts, Not skulk or put on a prudential mask, As if their duty were a desp’rate task;