shirker

Questions about shirker

What does shirker mean?

shirker means "a person who shirks his work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime)".

How many syllables are in shirker?

shirker has 2 syllables and divides as shir-ker under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for shirker?

Close synonyms include slacker. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shirker a common word?

shirker is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.