Definitions for shirker

shirker shirk·er

Spelling: [shur-ker]
IPA: /ˈʃɜr kər/

Shirker is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 106 anagrams from letters in shirker (ehikrrs).

Definitions for shirker

noun

  1. a person who evades work, duty, responsibility, etc.

Origin of shirker

First recorded in 1790-1800; shirk + -er1

Examples for shirker

Will it satisfy you if I own that I am a shirker, a skrim-shanker, and a coward?

Nor was there a shirker among the men—and all because the leader was Forrest.

The more he explained the more he would seem to them to be a shirker.

I am a shirker, a man who would be drummed out of any regiment.

Just as 'patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel,' so fatalism is the last refuge of a shirker.

Insist that you are no shirker, no coward, that you are brave even to daring.

She was about to set Portia hastily down in her mind as on the order of a shirker.

It would have been a condemnation of you if any one of us had been a shirker.

There is no place for a shirker or a quitter in a real Unitarian church.

Grey Bird was not a 'shirker' at any time, but he was surpassing himself on this occasion.

Word Value for shirker
Scrable

14

Words with friends

13

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