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The term "lurk" can be traced back to when it was first used during the 14th century. [8] The word referred to someone who would hide in concealment, often for an evil purpose. In the mid-1980s, the word started to be applied to the Internet when bulletin board systems became popular.
Lurk (Dungeons & Dragons) Lurk, another name for a vampire in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer spin-off comic Fray; Lurk, a character in the 1972 British comedy film Up the Front; Lurk, another name for a myrddraal, a fictional shadowspawn species in the Wheel of Time series; Lurk, 2009 Chinese TV series
Lurcher is an old English term for a crossbred dog; specifically, the result of mating a sighthound with a dog of another type, typically a working breed.The term was first used with this meaning in 1668; it is considered to be derived from the verb lurch, apparently a variant form of lurk, meaning lurk or steal.
The expression "the whole kaboodle" is still used, at least in the antediluvian recesses of English usage where I lurk. Wanderer57 21:55, 25 July 2011 (UTC) In my experience "muchness" is not much used other than in "much of a muchness". I shall try to work it into conversations. Wanderer57 22:06, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
Rage-farming (or rage-seeding) derives from the concept of "farming" rage; planting metaphorical seeds which cause angry responses to grow. [12] It is a form of clickbait, a term used since c. 1999, which is "more nuanced" and not necessarily seen as a negative tactic.
Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...
Synonyms [1] Aranea tarantula Linnaeus, 1758 ... They are a nocturnal species and generally lurk at the mouths of their burrows waiting for prey, so people are ...
The Araneomorphae, to the contrary, include the weavers of spiral webs; the cobweb spiders that live in the corners of rooms, and between windows and screens; the crab spiders that lurk on the surfaces of flowers in gardens; the jumping spiders that are visible hunting on surfaces; the wolf spiders that carpet hunting sites in sunny spots; and ...