Definitions for shirkers

shirkers shirk·er

Spelling: [shur-ker]
IPA: /ˈʃɜr kər/

Shirkers is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 144 anagrams from letters in shirkers (ehikrrss).

Definitions for shirkers

noun

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

Origin of shirkers

First recorded in 1790-1800; shirk + -er1

Examples for shirkers

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Word Value for shirkers
Scrable

14

Words with friends

13

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