skulker

Other forms of skulker

plural

skulkers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about skulker

What does skulker mean?

skulker means "someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in skulker?

skulker has 2 syllables: skul-ker. The stress falls on "skul".

What is another word for skulker?

Close synonyms include malingerer, shammer, lurker, lurcher. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is skulker a common word?

skulker is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.