shirking

verb (used with object)

1. to evade (work, duty, responsibility, etc.).

verb (used without object)

2. to evade work, duty, etc.

noun

3. a shirker.

verb

1. to avoid discharging (work, a duty, etc); evade

noun Also: shirker

2. a person who shirks

noun

1. Islam
   1. the fundamental sin of regarding anything as equal to Allah
   2. any belief that is considered to be in opposition to Allah and Islam

v.

1630s, “to practice fraud or trickery,” also a noun (1630s, now obsolete) “a needy, disreputable parasite” [OED], perhaps from German schurke “scoundrel, rogue, knave, villain” (see shark (n.)). Sense of “evade one’s work or duty” first recorded 1785, originally in slang. Related: Shirked; shirking.