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Stalker vs Stalkerish - What's the difference?

stalker | stalkerish |

As a noun stalker

is stalker (a person who engages in stalking).

As an adjective stalkerish is

(informal) of, pertaining to, or resembling a stalker.

stalker

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

    * (a person who stalks game) tracker * (a person who secretly follows someone) prowler

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    stalkerish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (informal) Of, pertaining to, or resembling a stalker.
  • * 1999 , Laura Anne Gilman, , Simon and Schuster, ISBN 9780743431194, page 20:
    • “There was something in the cemetery last night,” she told her Watcher. “I mean, something more than the usual. Something not of the undead family. A big, nasty something. I couldn’t see it clearly, but it was doing the menacing thing behind me. Stalkerish . And it, well, it giggled.”