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Lurky (adj) means Inclined to lurk, or suggesting that kind of behaviour.

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Inclined to lurk, or suggesting that kind of behaviour.

"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." — Gillian Dooley, Graham Nerlich (2014)

"The children's ideas were creative responses to the lines of the original: a lurky stream, dark, muddy, soil coming up from the bottom." — Dennis Carter, Shakespeare and Classic Works in the Classroom (2013)

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