skulk

Meaning

Noun

1. A group of foxes.
2. A group of people seen as being fox-like (e.g. cunning, dishonest, or having nefarious plans).
3. The act of skulking.
4. The act of skulking.
5. The act of skulking.
6. (obsolete) One who avoids an obligation or responsibility.

Verb

1. To stay where one cannot be seen, conceal oneself (often in a cowardly way or with the intent of doing harm).
2. To move in a stealthy or furtive way; to come or go while trying to avoid detection.
3. To avoid an obligation or responsibility.

Synonyms

lurk

hide

prowl

sneak

hide out

malinger

barrel

barren

bask

battery

🔋

bed

🛏️

bevy

bike

🚲

boar

🐗

brace

brood

building

bunch

bury

business

busyness

cartload

chicken out

chowder

circle

⭕

clamour

cloud

☁️

cluster

clutter

coalition

colony

comfort

company

corps

covey

creep

drift

drove

erst

exaltation

family

👪

field

flight

✈️

flock

flush

gaggle

go

grist

gulp

harem

haunt

herd

hive

intrigue

keep away

kennel

kindle

knot

🪢

leash

lie in wait

mob

mooch

murder

mustering

nest

pack

paddling

parliament

plump

pod

pounce

pride

raft

rookery

rout

school

🏫

shape up

shirk

shiver

shoal

shrewdness

sidle

skein

sleuth

slink

sloth

🦥

sneak in

snoop

sounder

span

string

🪢

stud

swarm

team

tiding

tittering

train

🚋

tribe

trip

troop

waylay

wedge

harras

clowder

cop out

lie low

murmuration

hirsel

abscond

cete

ambuscade

ambush

army

ascension

band

Pronounced as (IPA)

/skʌlk/

Etymology

From Middle English skulke, skulken, of North Germanic origin; compare Danish skulke (“shirk”), Swedish skolka (“play truant”).