Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

shirking

/ʃˈɝkɪŋ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.29 in modern English

Syllables: shirk-ing
IPA: /ʃˈɝkɪŋ/

16

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of shirk

noun

The act of one who shirks.

Example Sentences

"1906-1907, Mark Twain, Chapters from My Autobiography Autobiography […] inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth […]"
"Midler has never been called a feminist, but one cannot call her anything else better. Every move in her career appears to be one more shirking of categorization."

Inflected Forms

shirkings (plural)

Synonyms

slacking soldiering goofing off goldbricking

Rhymes With

working hard-working lurking jerking reworking smirking overworking perking frerking

Questions

How do you pronounce shirking?: The recorded pronunciation is /ʃˈɝkɪŋ/.
What does shirking mean?: present participle and gerund of shirk

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