Scrimshanker

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A shirker; one who scrimshanks. UK, slang

    "“As good a boy as I want,” said Revere, the admiring skipper. “The best of the batch,” said the Adjutant to the Colonel. “Keep back that young skrimshanker Porkiss, sir, and let Revere make him sit up.”"

  2. 2
    a shirker wordnet

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"“As good a boy as I want,” said Revere, the admiring skipper. “The best of the batch,” said the Adjutant to the Colonel. “Keep back that young skrimshanker Porkiss, sir, and let Revere make him sit up.”"

Etymology

From scrimshank + -er.

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