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单词 gold-bricker
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gold-brickern.

Brit. /ˈɡəʊl(d)brɪkə/, U.S. /ˈɡoʊl(d)ˌbrɪkər/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: gold-brick v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < gold-brick v. + -er suffix1. Compare earlier gold brick n., gold-bricking n.
colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.)
1. A swindler, a cheat. Cf. gold brick n. 2. Now rare.
ΚΠ
1902 C. L. Cullen More Ex-tank Tales iv. 85 He was the top-notch gold-bricker of his own or any other age.
1924 Amer. Mercury Sept. 113/2 The old West filled up with gangsters, crooks, sharpers, phony dealers, loaded wheel and dice experts, gold brickers from the Eastern underworld.
1934 Proc. 34th National Encampm. Veterans Foreign Wars 1933 80 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (73rd Congr., 2nd Sess.: House Doc. 152) III It is up to us to clean our own house and get rid of the gold-brickers not only in veterans' affairs, but in the Government, gold-brick bankers and..gold-brick politicians.
2. A useless or lazy person; a shirker. Cf. gold brick n. 3.Now the usual sense.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > [noun] > avoiding an action or condition > avoiding duty, work, or exertion > one who
skulkc1320
loundererc1425
old soldier1722
malingerer1785
skulker1785
shirker1799
shirk1818
slink1824
schemer1843
sconcer1843
scrimshanker1882
scrimshank1886
sooner1892
Weary Willie1896
slacker1898
slackster1901
sugarer1904
work-shy1904
gold brick1905
tired Tim (also Timothy)1906
lead-swinger1917
piker1917
gold-bricker1919
slinker1919
poler1938
skiver1941
1919 Everybody's Mag. Nov. 61/3 Just lays there, darned old goldbricker; Lets me wait on him.
1932 Blue Valley Farmer (Oklahoma City) 4 Feb. 8/4 No country worth fighting for was ever built on slacker's devotion or gold-bricker's patriotism.
1944 N. Mailer Let. 30 Apr. in Sel. Lett. (2014) 17 Then there is the goldbricker—the fellow who avoids all work, or when he is caught, tries to get the softest job.
1981 P. Theroux Mosquito Coast (1982) i. i. 7 A policeman had his hands clasped over our parking meter, resting on it, with his chin on his fingers, like a gold bricker leaning on a shovel handle.
2010 D. A. Lanpher Flyin' Chunks & Other Things to Duck iv. 33 Sergeant Domai was convinced that I was a gold bricker, a bug out. He thought I was faking illness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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