stalkerish en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈstɔːkəɹɪʃ/ (UK)
Etymology
Etymology tree English stalker Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -isch English -ish English stalkerish From stalker + -ish.
Meanings
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(informal) Of, pertaining to, or resembling a stalker.
“There was something in the cemetery last night,” she told her Watcher. “I mean, something more than the usual. Something not of the undead family. A big, nasty something. I couldn’t see it clearly, but it was doing the menacing thing behind me. Stalkerish. And it, well, it giggled.”
1999, Laura Anne Gilman, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Visitors, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 20:His postwar roles, full of myopic obsession, stalkerish derangement, and a desire for vengeance, don't seem like ground Hanks is willing to cover.
2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC:They think it's weird. Some people think it's a cute weird in a quirky way, some a creepy weird in a stalkerish, he's hiding bodies in a barrel way.
2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 1:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most stalkerish | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more stalkerish | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |