Skulk vs Slive - What's the difference?
skulk | slive |
to conceal oneself; to hide
* Dryden
* 1852 , Charles Dickens, Bleak House ,
to sneak around, sneak about
* 1904 , Paul Laurence Dunbar,
to shirk; to avoid obligation
(transitive, obsolete, or, dialectal) To cut; split; separate.
(transitive, obsolete, or, dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) To cut or slice something off; separate by slicing.
(dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To sneak; skulk; proceed in a sly way; creep.
As nouns the difference between skulk and slive
is that skulk is a group of foxes while slive is a slice or sliver; slip, chip.As verbs the difference between skulk and slive
is that skulk is to conceal oneself; to hide while slive is to cut; split; separate.skulk
English
Verb
(en verb)- Discovered and defeated of your prey, / You skulked behind the fence, and sneaked away.
- 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.
- Fully a dozen of the citizens had seen him hastening toward the woods and noted his skulking air [...]