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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--skulk skulk (skulk) verb intr. 1. To hide, evade, or move stealthily. noun 1. Someone who lies in hiding, evades, or lurks. 2. A pack of foxes. [From Middle English skulken, of Scandinavian origin.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. "Heaven's Acre Wildlife Center has a gaggle of geese, a skulk of foxes, an over-abundance of raccoons and a singular problem - it violates city zoning." Gary Gerhardt; Wildlife Rehab Center Runs Into the Teeth of Arvada's Zoning Rules; Rocky Mountain News (Denver, Colorado); Aug 6, 1998. This week's theme: collective nouns. X-Bonus To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. -Edmund Burke, statesman and writer (1729-1797)

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