lurksome
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]lurksome (comparative more lurksome, superlative most lurksome)
- Characterised or marked by lurking; lurky
- 1914, Typographical Journal, volume 44:
- Whereas, The strong and lurksome hand of death has again entered the home of one of our members and taken from it our beloved brother and treasurer, [...]
- 1918, Coal and Coal Trade Journal:
- Shrink not in fear of lurksome difficulties or disturbances.
- 2014, Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things:
- Next she fetched the large stone mortar where it hunkered down all lurksome in Darkhouse.