name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
malinger
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /məˈlɪŋɡə/
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US: /məˈlɪŋɡɚ/
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rhymes with -ɪŋɡə(ɹ)
verb
Meaning 2
To feign illness, injury, or incapacitation in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive
Examples
- It is not uncommon on exam days for several students to malinger rather than prepare themselves.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: goldbrick, shirk
verb
Meaning 3
To self-inflict real injury or infection (to inflict self-harm) in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive
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verb
Meaning 4
avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: skulk
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fiddle, shirk, shrink from, goldbrick
History
Etymology
From French malingrer, from adjective malingre (“delicate, fragile”).
Across languages
Translations
31 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: تَمَارَضَ (tamāraḍa) — to feign illness
- Bulgarian: преструвам се на болен (prestruvam se na bolen) — to feign illness
- Chinese Cantonese: 詐病 /诈病 (zaa3 beng6) — to feign illness
- Chinese Mandarin: 裝病 /装病 (zhuāngbìng) — to feign illness
- Czech: simulovat — to feign illness
- Czech: hodit se marod — to feign illness
- Finnish: tekeytyä sairaaksi — to feign illness
- Finnish: teeskennellä sairasta — to feign illness
- French: feindre la maladie — to feign illness
- French: faire le malade — to feign illness
- French: se faire porter pâle — to feign illness
- German: simulieren — to feign illness
- Hungarian: szimulál — to feign illness
- Hungarian: betegnek adja ki magát — to feign illness
- Hungarian: színlel — to feign illness
- Hungarian: tettet — to feign illness
- Irish: bheith ag meathlóireacht — to feign illness
- Japanese: 仮病を使う (kebyō o tsukau) — to feign illness
- Korean: 꾀병을 부리다 (kkoebyeong'eul burida) — to feign illness
- Macedonian: симулира (simulira) — to feign illness
- Māori: whakangehengehe — to feign illness
- Polish: symulować — to feign illness
- Polish: udawać chorego — to feign illness
- Polish: udać chorego — to feign illness
- Portuguese: fingir estar doente — to feign illness
- Russian: притворя́ться больны́м (pritvorjátʹsja bolʹným) — to feign illness
- Russian: притвори́ться больны́м (pritvorítʹsja bolʹným) — to feign illness
- Russian: прики́дываться больны́м (prikídyvatʹsja bolʹným) — to feign illness
- Russian: прики́нуться больны́м (prikínutʹsja bolʹným) — to feign illness
- Russian: симули́ровать (simulírovatʹ) — to feign illness
- Spanish: hacerse el enfermo — to feign illness