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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity [syn: malingerer, skulker, shammer]
2: someone waiting in concealment [syn: lurker, skulker, lurcher]

Merriam Webster's

noun see skulk I

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Skulk Skulk, Skulker Skulk"er, n. One who, or that which, skulks.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Lurker, shirk, sneak, mean fellow.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

A soldier who by feigned sickness, or other pretences, evades his duty; a sailor who keeps below in time of danger; in the civil line, one who keeps out of the way, when any work is to be done. To skulk; to hide one's self, to avoid labour or duty.