malinger
English edit
Etymology edit
From French malingrer, from adjective malingre (“delicate, fragile”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /məˈlɪŋɡə/
- (US) IPA(key): /məˈlɪŋɡɚ/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪŋɡə(ɹ)
Verb edit
malinger (third-person singular simple present malingers, present participle malingering, simple past and past participle malingered)
- (transitive, intransitive) To feign illness, injury, or incapacitation in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk.
- Hypernyms: (dated) goldbrick, shirk
- It is not uncommon on exam days for several students to malinger rather than prepare themselves.
- 1915 June, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, in Prufrock and Other Observations, London: The Egotist […], published 1917, →OCLC, page 13:
- And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully! / Smoothed by long fingers, / Asleep … tired … or it malingers, / Stretched on the floor, here beside you and me.
- 1984, The Psychiatric Quarterly[1], volume 56:
- It has been the impression of past investigators that persons who malinger psychosis have latent tendencies for the condition.
- (transitive, intransitive) To self-inflict real injury or infection (to inflict self-harm) in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
to feign illness
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See also edit
- factitious disorder, differentiated from malingering by a component of real mental illness as opposed to solely a sane calculation of shirking
- fakeclaim: to call out someone for, or accuse someone of, either factitious pretense or malingering
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Noun edit
malinger m or f