单词 | scrimshanker |
释义 | scrimshankern. Originally Military slang. A person who avoids his or her work or responsibilities; a shirker. Cf. scrimshank n. 1. 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 1882 Jrnl. Royal United Service Inst. 26 94 Those gentlemen, who may be all included under the common name of ‘Skrim Shankers’, will go, and will be a very good riddance of very bad rubbish. 1932 W. H. Auden Orators i. 19 We simply can't afford any passengers or skrimshankers. 1945 E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited 299 Brigade expects us to clean up the house for them. I should have thought some of those half-shaven scrimshankers I see lounging round Headquarters might have saved us the trouble. 2009 Express (Nexis) 16 May (Leader section) 16 Shameless scrimshankers have occupied safe seats for decades denying voters the chance of a decent MP. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1882 |
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