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scrimshank, v. slang (orig. and chiefly Mil.).|ˈskrɪmʃæŋk|
Also skr-.
[Of obscure origin.]
a. intr. To shirk duty. Hence ˈscrimshanking vbl. n. and ppl. a.; also ˈscrimshank n., (a) an act of ‘scrimshanking’; (b) = scrimshanker; ˈscrimshanker, a shirker.
1890Barrère & Leland Slang Scrimshank v., Scrimshanker. 1893Kipling Many Invent. 135 If Mulvaney stops skrimshanking..I lay your lives will be trouble to you. 1902Blackw. Mag. Jan. 2/2 A skrimshanking Tommy. 1903Pilot 17 Oct. 378/1 We all know that you are due for a long skrim-shank next month. 1913Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 40/1 There's nothing to be had here but a couple of nigger skrim-shankers. 1915Blackw. Mag. Jan. 66/1 It means that he is trying to get his discharge. Bring him along: I'll soon find out whether he is skrim-shanking or not. 1926T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (1935) iv. xliv. 254, I was furious with..Gasim, a gap-toothed, grumbling fellow, skrimshank in all our marches, bad-tempered, suspicious, brutal. 1929R. Graves Good-bye to All That xv. 203 The Actor said he was skrim⁓shanking and didn't want the battle. This was unfair. The Surrey-man looked properly sick. 1932Skrimshanker [see passenger 6]. 1937P. Bottome Mortal Storm viii. 98 One must not do their duties for them, or pet them into skrim-shanking. 1945E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited 299 Brigade expects us to clean up the house for them. I should have thought some of those half-shaven scrim⁓shankers I see lounging round Headquarters might have saved us the trouble. 1960Universe 30 Dec. 3/3 This quietly-spoken Irishman can be very firm with scrimshankers. 1966Listener 28 July 127/3 Scrimshanking, when it's a question of getting a job finished. 1975I. Murdoch Word Child 147, I was just telling Hilary we saw him skrimshanking yesterday. 1978Verbatim May 1/2 It exposes the shirking scrimshank, who presumably preserves his legs from unnecessary exertion. |