Dictionary

lurky en · ADJ

Etymology

From lurk + -y.

Meanings

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

Forms

Deriveds

lurkiness

Synonyms

furtive