Cower vs Hurkle - What's the difference?
cower | hurkle |
To crouch or cringe, or to avoid or shy away from something, in fear.
* Dryden
* Goldsmith
to draw in the parts of the body, especially with pain or cold
to cower
(of the limbs) to contract, to pull in
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As verbs the difference between cower and hurkle
is that cower is {{cx|intransitive|lang=en}} To crouch or cringe, or to avoid or shy away from something, in fear while hurkle is to draw in the parts of the body, especially with pain or cold.cower
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) kuren or from Scandinavian ((etyl) . Unrelated to coward, which is of Latin origin.Verb
(en verb)- He'd be useless in war. He'd just cower in his bunker until the enemy came in and shot him, or until the war was over.
- Our dame sits cowering o'er a kitchen fire.
- Like falcons, cowering on the nest.
