shirker

[ shur-ker ]

noun

Origin of shirker

First recorded in 1790–1800; shirk + -er¹

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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.
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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.
The Half-Hearted | John Buchan

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