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shirkings

shirkings is the plural of shirking.

Meaning of shirking

Noun

shirking (plural shirkings)

  1. The act of one who shirks.
    • Autobiography […] inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth […]1906-1907, Mark Twain, Chapters from My Autobiography

Questions about shirkings

What is shirkings the plural of?
Shirkings is the plural of shirking.

Words near shirkings in the dictionary

  1. shirkest
  2. shirketh
  3. Shirkey
  4. Shirkeys
  5. shirking
  6. shirkings
  7. shirks
  8. shirky
  9. Shirky principle
  10. shirl
  11. Shirland

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