stalko
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]stalko (plural stalkos or stalkoes)
- (obsolete) A poor person who pretends to be of grand ancestry.
- 1805, Maria Edgeworth, Popular Tales, volume 2, page 148:
- Soft Simon had reduced himself to the lowest class of Stalkos, or walking gentlemen, as they are termed; men who have nothing to do, and no fortune to support them, but who style themselves esquire; and who […] are jealous of that title, and of their claims to family antiquity.