Definitions for malinger

malinger ma·lin·ger

Spelling: [muh-ling-ger]
IPA: /məˈlɪŋ gər/

Malinger is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 483 anagrams from letters in malinger (aegilmnr).

Definitions for malinger

verb (used without object)

  1. to pretend illness, especially in order to shirk one's duty, avoid work, etc.

Origin of malinger

1810-20; French malingre sickly, ailing, equivalent to mal- mal- + Old French heingre haggard (perhaps

Examples for malinger

It was quick work; but Bowles had a college education—he had been only six hours a cowboy when he learned to malinger on the job.

"Sheep," who has been disposed to malinger, is the worst of the lot.

No man ever essayed to malinger or to shirk a duty to which he had been allotted by the doctor.

One, of course, can readily see with what facility an individual of the type under discussion could malinger mental symptoms.

Word Value for malinger
Scrable

11

Words with friends

15

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