Shirk vs Malinger - What's the difference?
shirk | malinger |
To avoid, especially a duty, responsibility, etc.; to stay away from.
* Hare
To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away.
* Byron
To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.
* Bishop Rainbow
English heteronyms
Malinger is a see also of shirk.
Shirk is a hypernym of malinger.
As verbs the difference between shirk and malinger
is that shirk is to avoid, especially a duty, responsibility, etc; to stay away from while malinger is to feign illness, injury, or incapacitation in order to avoid work or obligation.As a noun shirk
is one who shirks or shirk can be (islam) the unforgivable sin of idolatry.shirk
English
Etymology 1
First attested use in 1625 – 1635, apparently from association with shark (verb form), or from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- the usual makeshift by which they try to shirk difficulties
- If you have a job, don't shirk from it by staying off work.
- One of the cities shirked from the league.
- You that never heard the call of any vocation, that shirk living from others, but time from yourselves.