What is the meaning of SHIRK. Phrases containing SHIRK
See meanings and uses of SHIRK!Slangs & AI meanings
Vrb phrs. To waste time, to shirk one's duties. E.g."Come on Mark, stop swinging the lead, there's work to do."
Noun. A shirker, one who evades doing their work or duties.
Piker is slang for a wild bullock.Piker is British slang for a gypsy or new−age traveller.Piker is American, Australian and New Zealand slang for a lazy person; shirker. Piker is slang for amean person.Piker is New Zealand slang for a useless person; failure.
Gold brick is American slang for an idler or shirker.
Goof−off is American slang for a lazy or irresponsible person. Goof−off is American slang for an instance of shirking.
Office worker is London Cockney rhyming slang for shirker.
Verb. To shirk one's duties. A common adolescent's term for avoiding school lessons.
To shirk work, or loaf.
Swing the lead is slang for to waste time, to shirk ones duties.
Skate is American slang for a person; fellow.Skate is American slang for avoid work or duty, shirk.Skate is American slang for a worn−out, decripit horse.
 A layabout
Sooner is American slang for someone who acts prematurely. Sooner is Australian slang for an idler or shirker.Sooner is Australian slang for an ineffective or obstructive person or thing.
Noun. An evasion of one's tasks, a period of shirking. Verb. To evade doing one's work or duties, to truant. E.g."Every Friday afternoon you can guarantee he'll be skiving and getting drunk down the pub."
Soldier is old slang for to malinger or shirk.
To procure by mean tricks, to steal.
to stay away from school or work; to shirk duty; to mooch from school
Shirker, lazy person. (Would rather sit around the coffee pot than help.)
Scrimshank is British military slang for to shirk duty, work.
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Slangs & AI derived meanings
Noun. 1. A contemptible person. Also arse monger. 2. A homosexual male. Derog.
Noun. 1. A person in a catatonic state or seemingly brain dead. 2. The female genitals. Verb. 1. To sit around doing little, to be idle. E.g."It was a great holiday, we just sat around cabbaging, topping up our tans and drinking cocktails." 2. To damage, to injure. E.g."Last year I cabbaged my knee playing football, and it's still not fully recovered" [Northern use?]
Vrb phrs. To defecate. E.g."Can I get Tim to give you a call back? He's just in the toilet, laying some cable."
n 1. The control stick of an aircraft. 2. A manual control or cursor device, as one attached to a computer or video game.
Yard office
Gauge was old slang for an alcoholic drink.Gauge was old slang for a pipe or pipeful of tobacco.
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v. t.
To fail in; to shirk, as a task or duty.
n.
One who lives by shifts and tricks; one who avoids the performance of duty or labor.
v. i.
To live by shifts and fraud; to shark.
v. i.
To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away.
v. t.
To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.
v. t.
To miss intentionally; to avoid; to shun; to refuse; to let go by; to shirk.
a.
Disposed to shirk.
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Wandering from business or duty; loitering; idle, and shirking duty; as, a truant boy.
n.
One who shirks.
v. t.
To shut out of sight; to avoid, or purposely evade; to shirk; as, to blink the question.
superl.
Disinclined to action or exertion; averse to labor; idle; shirking work.
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In the army, a soldier who feigns himself sick, or who induces or protracts an illness, in order to avoid doing his duty; hence, in general, one who shirks his duty by pretending illness or inability.
v. i.
To shelter one's self from danger, risk, duty, responsibility, etc., as if by hiding in or behind a hedge; to skulk; to slink; to shirk obligations.
v. t.
To avoid; to escape; to neglect; -- implying unfaithfulness or fraud; as, to shirk duty.
n.
One who underdoes; a shirk.
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One who stays away from business or any duty; especially, one who stays out of school without leave; an idler; a loiterer; a shirk.
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