Reverse Dictionary: MALINGER

NOUNS
► FALSING shamming, malingering → 1940s Aust. sl.
► MALINGERY a malingering → 1847

NOUNS – PERSON
► BEAT an idle, worthless, or shiftless fellow; a loafer; a layabout; a sponger; a shirker or malingerer → 1865 US
► COFFEE BOILER a malingerer; a shirker → US Civil War usage
► DEADBEAT a malingerer or loafer; one who avoids exertion in any form → 1862 Amer. sl., esp.  military
► FAKER a person who feigns illness, injury, or disability; a malingerer → 1910 colloq.
► GALLEY-GROWLER an idle grumbler and skulker; a malingerer → 1867
► GALLEY-STOKER an idler, a malingerer, a lazy skulker → 1867 (Bk.)
► LABOR FAKER a worker who loafs on the job; a malingerer; hence, a corrupt union leader → 1907 US sl.
► LEAD-SWINGER a malingerer or shirker → 1918 Brit. sl.
► OLD SOLDIER a malingerer; one who pretended to be sick or disabled so he could avoid drill and take life easy in a hospital tent → 1805 US military sl.
► OLD VET a malingerer → 1862 US military usage
► SCRIMSHANK a malingerer or one who avoids duty → 1890 sl., orig. & chiefly services’ usage
► SCRIMSHANKER a malingerer or one who avoids duty → 1890 sl., orig. & chiefly services’ usage
► SICK-BAY MOOCHER a malingerer → L19 nautical sl.

VERBS
► ALIBI to malinger → 1968 Amer. dial.
► BAG IT to loaf, to malinger, to evade one’s duty → 1978 military sl.
► CHRONIC to malinger → 1967 Amer. dial. 
► DEADBEAT to loaf, to sponge, to malinger; to avoid doing a thing; to defraud → 1881 US sl.
► ENJOY POOR HEALTH to malinger → 1966 Amer. dial.
► FAKE to malinger by feigning illness → 1881 US sl.
► LAY OUT to stay away from work, school, or other commitments, usually without permission; to loaf; to malinger → 1896 Amer. dial.
► PLAY THE OLD SOLDIER to malinger; to feign illness; to practice deception → 1713 military sl.
► RAILROAD to malinger; to pretend to be sick → 1967 Amer. dial.
► RAT to idle about; to shirk work or school; to malinger → 1929 Amer. dial.
► RAT AROUND to idle about; to shirk work or school; to malinger; to lounge around doing nothing in particular → 1857 Amer. dial.
► SCRIMSHANK to malinger or shirk one’s duty → 1890 sl., orig. & chiefly services’ usage
► SOLDIER to malinger, to shirk; to loaf → 1825 Amer. dial.
► SPRUCE to malinger or shirk one’s duty → 1917 Brit. sl., orig. services’ usage
► SWING THE LEAD to malinger or shirk one’s duty → 1917 Brit. sl.