Verb

(en verb)

* {{quote-book, year=1786, author=Boswell, title=Life Of Johnson, Volume 5, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=It is a poor thing for a fellow to get drunk at night, and sculk to bed, and let his friends have no sport.' }}

* {{quote-book, year=1915, author=Aphra Behn, title=The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. III, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=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. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1910, author=Jonathan Swift, title=Poems (Volume II.), chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=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. }}

Verb

(en verb)

to conceal oneself; to hide

* Dryden

Discovered and defeated of your prey, / You skulked behind the fence, and sneaked away.

* 1852 , Charles Dickens, Bleak House ,

Behind dingy blind and curtain, in upper story and garret, skulking more or less under false names, false hair, false titles, false jewellery, and false histories, a colony of brigands lie in their first sleep.

to sneak around, sneak about

* 1904 , Paul Laurence Dunbar,

Fully a dozen of the citizens had seen him hastening toward the woods and noted his skulking air [...]

to shirk; to avoid obligation