SHIRKING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shirking mean? 

• SHIRKING (noun)
  The noun SHIRKING has 1 sense:

1. the evasion of work or duty

  Familiarity information: SHIRKING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHIRKING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The evasion of work or duty

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

goldbricking; goofing off; shirking; slacking; soldiering

Hypernyms ("shirking" is a kind of...):

dodging; escape; evasion (nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do)

Derivation:

shirk (avoid (one's assigned duties))

 Context examples 

“Search him, some of you shirking lubbers, and the rest of you aloft and get the chest,” he cried.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Now, that's shirking.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)