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A man was skulking around outside.
She skulked into her sister's room.
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Here's one for the word-puzzle lovers. Can you name three things that the word skulk has in common with all of these other words: booth, brink, cog, flit, give, kid, meek, scab, seem, skull and wing? If you noticed that all of the terms on that list have just one syllable, then you've got the first (easy) similarity, but the next two are likely to prove a little harder to guess. Do you give up? All of the words listed above are of Scandinavian origin and all were first recorded in English in the 13th century. As for "skulk," its closest known Scandinavian relative is the Norwegian dialect word skulka, which means "to lie in wait" or "lurk."
around campus he was seen as a solitary skulk who seemed to be a little too interested in news reports of school shootings
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14th century
: to move or hide in a secret way especially because you are planning to do something bad
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