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shirker

noun

Etymology

From shirk + -er.

  1. borrowed from Schurke
  2. formed as shirker — “shirk + -er”

Definitions

  1. One who shirks a duty or responsibility.

  2. One who is lazy.

    • the shirkers in the family complain when she gets them chopping up wood for a few hours in the woodshed

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA