Thesaurus:shirk
English edit
Verb edit
Sense: to avoid a duty or responsibility edit
Synonyms edit
- blow off (US)
- dog [⇒ thesaurus]
- doss
- duck
- goldbrick (dated)
- goof off (US)
- lollygag (US)
- malinger
- procrastinate [⇒ thesaurus]
- shirk
- slack off
- soldier [⇒ thesaurus]
- swing the lead (idiomatic)
Hyponyms edit
- desert
- multislack
- play truant [⇒ thesaurus]
- renege
- welch
- —
- chuck a sickie
- do Abram (UK, archaic)
- pull a sickie
- sham Abram (UK, archaic)
- sham Abraham (UK, archaic)
- throw a sickie
Hypernyms edit
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “623. avoidance” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “shirk” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
- some synonyms at Google Ngram Viewer