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scrimshankers

scrimshankers is the plural of scrimshanker.

Meaning of scrimshanker

Noun

scrimshanker (plural scrimshankers)

  1. (UK, slang) A shirker; one who scrimshanks.
    • “As good a boy as I want,” said Revere, the admiring skipper. “The best of the batch,” said the Adjutant to the Colonel. “Keep back that young skrimshanker Porkiss, sir, and let Revere make him sit up.”1889, Rudyard Kipling, “Only A Subaltern”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 142

Questions about scrimshankers

What is scrimshankers the plural of?
Scrimshankers is the plural of scrimshanker.

Words near scrimshankers in the dictionary

  1. scrimshandering
  2. scrimshanders
  3. scrimshank
  4. scrimshanked
  5. scrimshanker
  6. scrimshankers
  7. scrimshanking
  8. scrimshanks
  9. scrimshaw
  10. scrimshawed
  11. scrimshawer

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