Thesaurus:shirk
English
Synonyms
- 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
- 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
See also
Further reading
- “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
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