单词 | malingerer |
释义 | malingerern. A person who malingers. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > sick person > [noun] > imaginary > pretending illness malingerer1785 skulker1785 sconcer1843 society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > type of soldier generally > [noun] > malingerer or shirker malingerer1785 skulker1785 king's bargain1867 carpet soldier1869 chocolate-cream soldier1894 chocolate soldier1895 snow-bird1905 the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > undutifulness > undutiful person > [noun] > avoiding > by pretending illness malingerer1785 skulker1785 sconcer1843 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 1755 J. Wolfe Instr. Young Officers (1768) 41 If the soldiers of a company discover a maligner [sic] at any time, or one of those rascals that shun duty and danger, from cowardice or effeminacy, they are to inform the non-commissioned officers of the company.] 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Malingeror, a military term for one who under pretence of sickness evades his duty. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue at King's bad bargain A malingeror, or soldier who shirks his duty. 1811 F. Burdett Speech 18 June in Hansard Commons 20 701 There was nothing the matter with his sight,..it was all a pretence to avoid duty. He was..a malingerer... The man was brought to a trial by Court-martial for being a malingerer. 1843 H. Gavin Feigned & Factitious Dis. 13 Soldiers and sailors feigning disease are commonly designated as malingerers or skulkers. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 157 The crew of incapables and malingerers who infest our hospitals, our asylums, and our gaols. 1945 E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited Prol. 13 In the company office.., day began with the whine of the malingerer and the glum face and fixed eye of the man with a grievance. 1988 P. Gay Freud i. 49 He had diagnosed hysteria as a genuine ailment rather than the malingerer's refuge. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1785 |
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