Skulk vs Stalker - What's the difference?
skulk | stalker |
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
A person who engages in stalking. Originally meant a tracker and hunter or guide of game.
A person who secretly follows someone, sometimes with unlawful intentions.
Any of various devices for removing the stalk from plants during harvesting.
A kind of fishing net.
As nouns the difference between skulk and stalker
is that skulk is a group of foxes while stalker is stalker (a person who engages in stalking).As a verb skulk
is to conceal oneself; to hide.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 [...]