Truant vs Malingerer - What's the difference?
truant | malingerer |
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
As nouns the difference between truant and malingerer
is that truant is one who is absent without permission, especially from school while malingerer is a person who malingers.As an adjective truant
is absent without permission, especially from school.As a verb truant
is to play truant.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.
