SHIRKING

shirking, slacking, soldiering, goofing off, goldbricking

(noun) the evasion of work or duty

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Verb

shirking

present participle of shirk

Noun

shirking (plural shirkings)

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 […]

Source: Wiktionary

SHIRK

Shirk, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shirked; p. pr. & vb. n. Shirking.] Etym: [Probably the same word as shark. See Shark, v. t.]

1. To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation. You that never heard the call of any vocation, . . . that shirk living from others, but time from Yourselves. Bp. Rainbow.

2. To avoid; to escape; to neglect; -- implying unfaithfulness or fraud; as, to shirk duty. The usual makeshift by which they try to shirk difficulties. Hare.

Shirk, v. i.

1. To live by shifts and fraud; to shark.

2. To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away. One of the cities shirked from the league. Byron.

Shirk, n.

Definition: One who lives by shifts and tricks; one who avoids the performance of duty or labor.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition