malinger
Meaning of malinger
verb
- pretend to be ill in order to escape duty or work.
people who had psychosomatic complaints were probably malingering
early 19th century: back-formation from malingerer, apparently from French malingre, perhaps formed as mal- ‘wrongly’ + haingre ‘weak’, probably of Germanic origin.
Information about malinger
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of malinger is: malingers.
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Hyphenation of malinger
ma-linger
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- malinger is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
malinger synonyms
Meaning skulk:
Meaning falsely present something as the truth:
Meaning avoid or neglect (a duty or responsibility):
Meaning avoid work or a duty by staying away or leaving early; shirk:
Meaning invent excuses to avoid a task; shirk:
Anagrams of malinger
Words that rhyme with malinger
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