malinger
verb/məˈlɪŋɡə/UK/məˈlɪŋɡɚ/US
Etymology
From French malingrer, from adjective malingre (“delicate, fragile”).
- borrowed from malingrer
Definitions
To feign illness, injury, or incapacitation in order to avoid work, obligation, or…
To feign illness, injury, or incapacitation in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk.
- It is not uncommon on exam days for several students to malinger rather than prepare themselves.
- And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully! / Smoothed by long fingers, / Asleep … tired … or it malingers, / Stretched on the floor, here beside you and me.
- It has been the impression of past investigators that persons who malinger psychosis have latent tendencies for the condition.
To self-inflict real injury or infection (to inflict self-harm) in order to avoid work,…
To self-inflict real injury or infection (to inflict self-harm) in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk.
A surname.
The neighborhood
- neighborfactitious disorder
- neighborto call out someone for
- neighboror accuse someone of
- neighboreither factitious pretense
- neighbormalingering
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for malinger. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA