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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To SCULKverb

    To lurk in hiding places; to lie close.

    Etymology: sculcke, Danish

    It has struck on a sudden into such a reputation, that it scorns any longer to sculk, but owns itself publickly. Gov. of Tongue.

    Fearing to be seen, within a bed
    Of coleworts he conceal’d his wily head;
    There sculk’d ’till afternoon, and watch’d his time. Dryden.

    My prophets and my sophists finish’d here
    Their civil efforts of the verbal war:
    Not so my rabbins and logicians yield;
    Retiring still they combat; from the field
    Of open arms unwilling they depart,
    And sculk behind the subterfuge of art. Matthew Prior.

    No news of Phyl! the bridegroom came,
    And thought his bride had sculk’d for shame;
    Because her father us’d to say
    The girl had such a bashful way. Jonathan Swift.

    The immediate publishers thereof lay sculking under the wings of an act of parliament. Letter to Publisher of the Dunc.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Sculk

    alt. of Sculker

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Sculk

    Same as Skulk.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sculk in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sculk in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3


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