ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Lurky

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Lurky is an adjective meaning (rare, informal) Tending to lurk; given to or indicative of lurking.

Meaning

(rare, informal) Tending to lurk; given to or indicative of lurking.

Example Sentences

The children's ideas were creative responses to the lines of the original: a lurky stream, dark, muddy, soil coming up from the bottom.
This form of personal attachment and spatial transformation is particularly evident when Pat Purdy talks about the 'lurky place' where the kids would seek refuge.
Since the red-back is highly venomous and since it is a lurky little bastard and since we all had kids of an age to poke their fingers into every possible spider-refuge, this was a worrying time.

Synonyms for lurky

Depending on context, synonyms include furtive.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lurksome, lowering, lusk, lairlike, slothy, lingersome.

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