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形容詞

lurkish (comparative more lurkish, superlative most lurkish)

1. (rare) Tending to lurk; somewhat lurky.
   • 1894, Journal of the Waterford & South-East of Ireland, volume 1, page 31:

     They love no idle bench-whistlers nor lurkish faitors; for yoong and old are wholly addicted to thrieing the men commonlie to traffike, the women to spinning and carding.

   • 1905, Report of the Commissioner of Education, volume 1, page 344:

     Would God (I say) that the holy house were not pestered at this day with such hypocrites and damnable sort of lurkish, loitering lubbers, who (notwithstanding their great blockishness their palpable ignorance and extreme want of learning) […]

   • 2017, J. G. Zimmerman, Aphorisms and Reflections on Men, Morals and Things:

     Those who are lurkish, are open to the attacks of every ingenious scoundrel whose art will not alarm their indolence.