shirker

[ shur-ker ]

noun

1. a person who evades work, duty, responsibility, etc.

Word History and Origins

Origin of shirker¹

First recorded in 1790–1800; shirk + -er ¹

Example Sentences

Shirkers is Tan’s deeply personal documentary about this time in her life, and her relationship to her home, to cinema and to a man she trusted.

From Time

The preacher whom they proposed to pull out of his difficulty proved that he was neither a tenderfoot nor a shirker.

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Then I was sorry I had said that because they utterly refused to let me help wash the dishes and I felt like an awful shirker.

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You know I'm not much of a shirker, I haven't a lazy bone in my body where work's concerned.

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She was about to set Portia hastily down in her mind as on the order of a shirker.

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I am a shirker, a man who would be drummed out of any regiment.

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