stalkerish

English

Etymology

From stalker +‎ -ish.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈstɔːkəɹɪʃ/

Adjective

stalkerish (comparative more stalkerish, superlative most stalkerish)

1. (informal) Of, pertaining to, or resembling a stalker.
   • 1999, Laura Anne Gilman, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Visitors‎^[1], Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 20:

     “There was something in the cemetery last night,” she told her Watcher. “I mean, something more than the usual. Something not of the undead family. A big, nasty something. I couldn’t see it clearly, but it was doing the menacing thing behind me. Stalkerish. And it, well, it giggled.”

   • 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 1:

     They think it's weird. Some people think it's a cute weird in a quirky way, some a creepy weird in a stalkerish, he's hiding bodies in a barrel way.

   • 2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC‎^[2]:

     His postwar roles, full of myopic obsession, stalkerish derangement, and a desire for vengeance, don't seem like ground Hanks is willing to cover.

Related terms

• stalkery