stalker
English
noun
Definitions
- A person who engages in stalking, i.e. quietly approaching animals to be hunted; a tracker or guide in hunting game.
- A person who secretly follows someone, sometimes with unlawful intentions.
- Any of various devices for removing the stalk from plants during harvesting.
- Any bird that walks with a stalking motion.
- (obsolete) A kind of fishing net.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English stalkere affix from English stalk.
Origin
English
stalk
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- beanstalk English
- cornstalk English
- cyberstalk English
- cyberstalker English
- death English
- deathstalker English
- deer English
- deerstalker English
- deerstalkered English
- destalk English
- e-stalk English
- eyestalk English
- footstalk English
- haystalk English
- leafstalk English
- prestalk English
- seedstalk English
- stalk English
- stalkable English
- stalkee English
- stalkerhood English
- stalkerish English
- stalkerlike English
- stalkerware English
- stalkest English
- stalketh English
- stalkette English
- stalkish English
- stalkless English
- stalklike English
- stalky English
- wheatstalk English
- Stalker German
- stalken Dutch, Flemish
- stalker Dutch, Flemish
- сталкер Russian
- stalkear Spanish, Castilian
- stalkear Portuguese
- ストーカー Japanese
- stalke Middle English
- stalkere Middle English
- deer
- death
- stalk
- stalky
- e-stalk
- stalkee
- destalk
- stalkest
- prestalk
- stalkish
- stalketh
- eyestalk
- haystalk
- seedstalk
- stalkette
- beanstalk
- leafstalk
- stalkable
- footstalk
- cornstalk
- stalkless
- stalklike
- wheatstalk
- stalkerish
- cyberstalk
- stalkerware
- stalkerlike
- deerstalker
- stalkerhood
- deathstalker
- cyberstalker
- deerstalkered