stalko

English

Noun

stalko (plural stalkos or stalkoes)

1. (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.