Definitions For Stalkily

Adverb

{{en-adv, -}} In a stalky manner. Like, or as if make up, made up of, one or several stalk#noun, stalks or stick#noun, sticks; with a tall and thin#adjective, thin appearance; lankily. {{quote-journal, en, title=Grappling the Grosvenor, magazine=w:fun (magazine), fun, location=London, publisher=Published (for the proprietors) by T. Moffitt,{{nb..., Fleet Street, E.C.}}, date=14 May 1879, volume=XXIX, issue=731, page=203, pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=OLIOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA203, column=2, oclc=752198897, passage=Oh, can it be their weariness that makes them lounge so stalkily, / And wear their flesh so flaccidly, and granulate, and chalkily?}} {{quote-book, en, author=Dan Wickenden, authorlink=Dan Wickenden, title=The Wayfarers, location=New York, N.Y., publisher={{w, William Morrow and Company}}, year=1945, page=46, oclc=771913736, passage=The conductor emerged from the wings, tall and lean in his tailcoat, and moved stalkily across the platform; applause began in the front rows and worked its way back gradually to the far reaches of the hall, where people were talking in a sudden frenzy, as if they had a great deal to get said before silence was enjoined upon them.}} {{quote-book, en, author=Lawrence Norfolk, authorlink=Lawrence Norfolk, title=The Pope’s Rhinoceros, location=London, publisher={{w, Sinclair-Stevenson}}, year=1996, isbn=978-1-85619-413-6, location2=London, publisher2=w:vintage books, vintage, year2=1998, page2=414, pageurl2=https://books.google.com/books?id=endAAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA414, isbn2=978-0-7493-9874-3, passage=Little stands of trees stand in stooks, stalkily bundled and clumped by giants.}} As if covertly following or hunt#verb, hunting a person; sneakily, surreptitiously. {{RQ:Kipling Stalky, story=Stalky, page=30, column=2, passage=There's no sense in not doin' a thing stalkily while you're about it.}} {{quote-book, en, author=Mairi Hedderwick, authorlink=Mairi Hedderwick, title=Highland Journey: A Sketching Tour of Scotland: Retracing the Steps of Victorian Artist John T. Reid, location=Edinburgh, publisher={{w, Canongate Press}}, year=1992, page=13, isbn=978-0-86241-353-8, passage=But the journey went on. Slower as the river became more intimate; reeds at the edge almost within touching distance. Waterfowl. A heron stalkily still. Dank lank growth and then the smells of intensive farming.}} {{quote-book, en, author=Michael Dibdin, authorlink=Michael Dibdin, chapter=IV, title=w:medusa (dibdin novel), medusa, series=An Aurelio Zen Mystery, location=London, publisher={{w, Faber and Faber}}, date=7 August 2003, isbn=978-0-571-21658-1, location2=New York, N.Y., publisher2={{w, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard}}, year2=February 2005, page2=39, pageurl2=https://books.google.com/books?id=7S4rPHmUaQ0C&pg=PA39, isbn2=978-1-4000-7608-6, passage='Now we must be careful,' announced Anton in his stalkily precise Italian.}}