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goldbricking

goldbricking is the present participle and gerund of goldbrick.

Meaning of goldbrick

Verb

goldbrick (third-person singular simple present goldbricks, present participle goldbricking, simple past and past participle goldbricked)

  1. (US, dated, slang) To shirk or malinger.
    • I'd just as soon goldbrick with malaria as with anything else.1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 173
  2. (US, dated, slang) To swindle.

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Questions about goldbricking

What is goldbricking the present participle and gerund of?
Goldbricking is the present participle and gerund of goldbrick.

Words near goldbricking in the dictionary

  1. Goldbloom
  2. goldbrick
  3. goldbricked
  4. goldbricker
  5. goldbrickers
  6. goldbricking
  7. goldbricks
  8. goldbug
  9. goldbugs
  10. goldcraft
  11. goldcrest

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