English
Pronunciation
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-ÉœË(r)k|-ÉœË(r)k
Verb
en-verb
- to hang out or wait around a location, preferably without drawing attention to oneself
#* 2005, w:Plato|Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. w:Stephanus pagination|235c.
#*: if we find the sophist lurking, we must round him up by royal command of the argument
- internet to view an internet forum without posting comments
Translations
trans-top|to hang out or wait around a location
Finnish: väijyä, vaania
trans-mid
trans-bottom
trans-top|to view an internet forum without posting comments
trans-mid
trans-bottom
Noun
en-noun
- The act of lurking.
#* 1921: George Colby Borley, The Lost Horizon
#*:There were enemies on the lurk and time was against him.
#*1955: John Maxwell Edmonds Longus, Daphnis et Chloe
#*: ... barked furiously and made at him as at a wolf, and before he could wholly rise from the lurk because of the sudden consternation, ...
#* 2004: Charles Reade, A Simpleton
#*:At two PM a man had called on him, and had produced one of his advertisements, and had asked him if that was all square—no bobbies on the lurk.
it:lurk
fi:lurk
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zh:lurk
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