lurky

comparative more lurky · superlative most lurky

1. informalrareTending to lurk; given to or indicative of lurking

   The children's ideas were creative responses to the lines of the original: a lurky stream, dark, muddy, soil coming up from the bottom.

   2013, Dennis Carter, Shakespeare and Classic Works in the Classroom

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   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.

   2010, Nikos Papastergiadias, Spatial Aesthetics

   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.

   2014, Gillian Dooley, Graham Nerlich, Never Mind about the Bourgeoisie

   Synonyms: furtive