skulk

suomi-englanti sanakirja

skulk englannista suomeksi

1. piileskellä, lymyillä

2. hiiviskellä

3. luistaa

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1. piileskellä, lymyillä

skulk englanniksi

1. A group of foxes.(w), ''Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English,'' London: Henry G. Bohn, 1857, Volume 2, p.(nbs)833: “SCULK, (..) A company of foxes.”https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000124333

2. (RQ:Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow)

3. (quote-book)

4. (quote-journal)

5. A group of people seen as being fox-like (''e.g.'' cunning, dishonest, or having nefarious plans).

6. (quote-book) a skulk of priests flapped out of the Church of San Geronimo, and women kneeling at novena put away their beads (..)

7. (quote-text)|location=New York|publisher=Knopf|year_published=2001|section=Part 5, p. 190|url=https://archive.org/details/eclipsenovel00banv|passage=(..) they went on, down the road, staggering, and shouldering each other, like a skulk of Jacobean villains.

8. (quote-book), a skulk of insurance executives met with President Bush and Commerce Secretary Donald Evans to press for the creation of a multibillion-dollar government safety net to limit their exposure to future terrorist incidents.

9. The act of skulking.

10. The act of moving in a stealthy or furtive way.

11. (quote-text)

12. (RQ:Williamson Dandelion Days)

13. A stealthy or furtive gait or way of moving.

14. (quote-text)|url=https://archive.org/details/lovemorr00morr|page=109|publisher=Knopf|location=New York|passage=Romen had developed a kind of strut to replace his former skulk.

15. The act of avoiding an obligation or responsibility.

16. (quote-book) to swing their hammocks as far abaft as possible, for the twofold purpose of having a skulk in their watch below at night, and to keep clear of the sprays, which usually pour down the gratings (..)

17. (quote-book) has wisely called the “sacredness of work.”

18. One who avoids an obligation or responsibility.

(syn).

19. (RQ:Marryat Newton Forster)

20. (RQ:Melville Omoo)

21. To stay where one cannot be seen, conceal oneself (often in a cowardly way or with the intent of doing harm).

(syn)

22. (RQ:Shakespeare Winter's Tale)

23. (RQ:Dryden Virgil) or, Palaemon|page=11|text=Discover’d and defeated of your Prey,You sculk’d behind the Fence, and sneak’d away.

24. (RQ:Wollstonecraft Vindication Women) vice skulks, with all its native deformity, from close investigation;

25. (RQ:Dickens Bleak House)

26. To move in a stealthy or furtive way; to come or go while trying to avoid detection.

27. (RQ:Holinshed Chronicles)

28. {{quote-book|en|year=1753|author=Samuel Richardson|title=The History of Sir Charles Grandison|location=London|section=Volume 4, Letter 38, p. 266|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004782202.0001.004

29. (quote-text)|author=Friedrich Schiller|location=London|publisher=Longman and Rees|section=act V, scene 4|page=196|url=https://archive.org/details/piccolominiorfir01schi

30. (RQ:Thackeray Pendennis)|46

31. {{quote-book|en|year=1904|author=Paul Laurence Dunbar|chapter=Lynching Of Jube Benson|The Lynching of Jube Benson|title=The Heart of Happy Hollow|location=New York|publisher=Dodd, Mead|page=233|url=https://archive.org/details/heartofhappyholl1904dunb

32. (RQ:Smith White Teeth)

33. To avoid an obligation or responsibility.

34. (RQ:Cowper Poems)

35. (RQ:Orwell Down and Out)