skulker

释义与例句

n.

1.

Agent noun of skulk; one who skulks.

One who stays where they cannot be seen (often in a cowardly way or with the intent of doing harm).

1894, William Taylor Adams (as Oliver Optic), Brother Against Brother, or The War on the Border, Boston: Lee and Shepard, Chapter 22, p. 274, Our men, from their position, can’t see these skulkers, who will have a good chance to pick off some of them at their leisure.
2.

Agent noun of skulk; one who skulks.

One who moves in a stealthy or furtive way; one who comes or goes while trying to avoid detection.

1800, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (translator), The Death of Wallenstein by Friedrich Schiller, Act I, Scene 7, in Wallenstein. A Drama in Two Parts, London: Longman and Rees, p. 24, O that thou hadst believ’d me! Yester evening Did we conjure thee not to let that skulker, That fox, Octavio, pass the gates of Pilsen. Thou gav’st him thy own horses to flee from thee.

1911, Charles G. D. Roberts, Neighbors Unknown, New York: Macmillan, Chapter “The Bull of the Barrens,” p. 205, In the meantime the pack, maddened by failure and ravenous from the view of food denied, had resumed the trail of the man. They were different beings now from the wary skulkers who had been following him from afar.
3.

Agent noun of skulk; one who skulks.

One who avoids an obligation or responsibility.

名词

From skulk + -er.

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