lurksome
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characterised or marked by lurking; lurky
Example Sentences
- "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, [...]"
- "Shrink not in fear of lurksome difficulties or disturbances."
- "Next she fetched the large stone mortar where it hunkered down all lurksome in Darkhouse."
Etymology
Etymology tree English lurk Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *somHós Proto-Germanic *samaz Proto-Germanic *-samaz Proto-West Germanic *-sam Old English -sum Middle English -som English -some English lurksome From lurk + -some.
Inflected Forms
more lurksome (comparative)
most lurksome (superlative)