Dogtired vs Goldbrick - What's the difference?
dogtired | goldbrick |
A gold brick, especially one that is fraudulent or nonexistent; a swindle, a con.
* 1920 , , (The Smart Set),'' January 1920, collected in ''(Tales of the Jazz Age):
*:Experience is the biggest gold brick in the world. All older people have it for sale.
* 1932 , , Memoirs Of A Soldier Of Fortune , Kessinger Publishing (2006), ISBN 9781428658349,
* 1932 , in , Volume 166, page 520:
* 1945 , in the Department of Agriculture and Immigration Bulletin , Volumes 422–433, page 5:
* , quoted in Lewis M. Dabney, Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature ,
(US slang, dated) A shirker or malingerer
* 1945 , Dr. Charley Haly, quoted in Doc: heroic stories of medics, corpsmen, and surgeons in combat by Mark R. Littleton,
*:Mac, there’s not a confounded thing wrong with you. You are an excellent physical specimen and in good health. You’re nothing but a goldbrick . Now, get your butt out of here and don’t ever come back again unless you’re really sick or need an immunization.
* 2004 (written ), (Howard Ashman), , “Proud of your Boy”:
*:Tell me that I’ve been a louse and loafer
*:You won’t get a fight here, no ma’am
*:Say I’m a goldbrick, a good-off, no good
*:But that couldn’t be all that I am
(US slang, dated) A swindler
(US slang, dated) To shirk or malinger
(US slang, dated) To swindle
As a noun goldbrick is
a gold brick, especially one that is fraudulent or nonexistent; a swindle, a con.As a verb goldbrick is
(us slang|dated) to shirk or malinger.dogtired
Not English
Dogtired has no English definition. It may be misspelled.goldbrick
English
Alternative forms
* gold-brickNoun
(en noun)page 98:
- These, as a rule, were not adverse to buying a goldbrick as long as they knew that there was a chance for them to dump it on somebody else afterwards with some profit.
- To-day, American attitude toward Europe is comparable to that of the country greenhorn who, having bought a goldbrick on Broadway, now fills the air not merely with the denunciation of the sharpers who tricked his credulity —
- The average farmer may be less of a victim than some other people by reason of his isolation, conservatism, and hard earned money, but he, too, has too often bought a goldbrick that did not materialize.
][http://www.amazon.com/Edmund-Wilson-Literature-Lewis-Dabney/dp/0374113122Macmillan (2005), ISBN 9780374113124, page 485:
p. 68