Truant vs Malinger - What's the difference?
truant | malinger |
Absent without permission, especially from school.
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Wandering from business or duty; straying; loitering; idle, and shirking duty.
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*1603+ , (William Shakespeare), (Hamlet) , Act 1, Scene 2
*:A truant disposition, good my lord.
*1772 , , p.149
*:While truant Jove, in infant pride, / Play'd barefoot on Olympus' side.
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*:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.
One who is absent without permission, especially from school.
To play truant.
To idle away; to waste.
* Ford
To idle away time.
* Lowell
In lang=en terms the difference between truant and malinger
is that truant is to idle away; to waste while malinger is to feign illness, injury, or incapacitation in order to avoid work or obligation.As verbs the difference between truant and malinger
is that truant is to play truant while malinger is to feign illness, injury, or incapacitation in order to avoid work or obligation.As an adjective truant
is absent without permission, especially from school.As a noun truant
is one who is absent without permission, especially from school.truant
English
Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* truant officerNoun
(truants)Derived terms
* play truantVerb
(en verb)- the number of schoolchildren known to have truanted
- I dare not be the author / Of truanting the time.
- (Shakespeare)
- By this means they lost their time and truanted on the fundamental grounds of saving knowledge.
