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shirker

shirker noun: one who shirks a duty or responsibility.

Noun

shirker (plural shirkers)

  1. One who shirks a duty or responsibility.
    Synonyms:
    derelict
  2. One who is lazy.
    • the shirkers in the family complain when she gets them chopping up wood for a few hours in the woodshed2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 353

shirker meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam and Gujarati

shirker in Tamil

கழப்பாளி, பொறுப்பை ஏற்காமல் நழுவுபவன்

shirker in Marathi

Someone who shirks
कामचोर kāmcor

shirker in Malayalam

absentee, dodger, truant
പണിയിൽനിന്നും മാറിക്കളയുന്നവൻ, സൂത്രത്തിൽ ഒഴിഞ്ഞുമാറിക്കളയുന്നവൻ, കഴപ്പൻ, ഉഴപ്പൻ, ഉഴപ്പാളി, ജോലിക്ക് ഹാജരാകാത്തവൻ

shirker in Gujarati

shirker, scrimshanker, someone who does not do the work assigned to them
કામચોર kāmcor
More languagesFewer languages
shirker in Indonesian
pembolos

Synonyms of shirker

Forms of shirker

pluralshirkers

Origin of shirker

From shirk + -er.

Questions about shirker

What does shirker mean?
Shirker means one who shirks a duty or responsibility.
What is shirker in Tamil?
Shirker in Tamil is கழப்பாளி, பொறுப்பை ஏற்காமல் நழுவுபவன். See Shirker meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is shirker?
Shirker is a noun.
What is the plural of shirker?
The plural of shirker is shirkers.

Words near shirker in the dictionary

  1. shirinbaf
  2. shiring
  3. shiritori
  4. shirk
  5. shirked
  6. shirker
  7. shirkers
  8. shirkest
  9. shirketh
  10. Shirkey
  11. Shirkeys

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: shirker (page history and authors); shirker (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); shirker (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); કામચોર (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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