stalker

From Middle English stalkere, equivalent to stalk +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɔːkə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɔːkə(ɹ)
• Homophone: stocker (cot–caught merger)

stalker (plural stalkers)

1. A person who engages in stalking, i.e., quietly approaching animals to be hunted; a tracker or guide in hunting game.
2. A person who secretly follows someone, sometimes with unlawful intentions.
   • 2009 April 22, Michael Cieply, “He’s Behind the Guffaws and the Gore”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     If the stalker thriller “Obsessed,” which opens on Friday, tops the box office, Clinton R. Culpepper will cement his reputation as Hollywood’s king of the schlockbuster.

   • 2018 April, Larry Zimmerman, “Cheap and Easily Manipulated Video”, in The Journal of the Kansas Bar Association‎^[2], Topeka, Kan.: Kansas Bar Association, →ISSN, page 21:

     Ordinary people have already been face-swapped into videos for humorous or prank purposes and there is no reason to believe that abusers, harassers, stalkers, and blackmailers will not soon be face-swapping victims into compromising video as part of their arsenal.

3. Any of various devices for removing the stalk from plants during harvesting.
4. Any bird that walks with a stalking motion.
5. (obsolete) A kind of fishing net.
6. (horse racing) A horse that tends to stay just behind the leaders in a race.
   • 2024, Jack Adler, Horse Racing: An Opinion: A New Way of Seeing the Sport of Kings:

     If the class of the field is a stalker, I'm all in in terms of evaluating his chances.

• (person who stalks game): tracker
• (person who secretly follows someone): prowler

• → Czech: stalker
• → Dutch: stalker
• → German: Stalker
• → Japanese: ストーカー
• → Korean: 스토커 (seutokeo)
• → Polish: stalker
• → Russian: ста́лкер (stálker), сто́кер (stóker)
• → Thai: สตอล์กเกอร์

• talkers, kartels, kestral

Borrowed from English stalker.

• IPA^(key): [ˈstalkɛr]
• Hyphenation: stal‧ker

stalker m anim

1. stalker (a person who secretly follows someone, sometimes with unlawful intentions)

• “stalker”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957 - not found
• “stalker”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989 - not found
• stalker in Internetová jazyková příručka, 2008–2022, Praha: Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR - found

From English stalker.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɑl.kər/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: stal‧ker

stalker m (plural stalkers, diminutive stalkertje n)

1. stalker (a person who secretly follows someone, sometimes with unlawful intentions)

• stalken
• stalking

Orthographic borrowing from English stalker.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstal.kɛr/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -alkɛr
• Syllabification: stal‧ker

stalker m pers (female equivalent stalkerka)

1. (crime) stalker (person who secretly follows someone, sometimes with unlawful intentions)

• stalker in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• stalker in Polish dictionaries at PWN