shirker

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: shirk=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

shirker, n. 

 One who shirks.  Macaulay.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

shirker

bungler, clock watcher, disregarder, dodger, eye-servant, goldbrick, goldbricker, goof-off, idler, ignorer, malingerer, neglecter, negligent, old soldier, procrastinator, shirk, skulk, skulker, slacker, slinker, sloven, slut, soldier, spiv, tax dodger, trifler, truant, waiter on Providence, welsher

ROGET THESAURUS

shirker

Avoidance

N avoidance, abstention, abstinence, for bearance, refraining, inaction, neutrality, avoidance, evasion, elusion, seclusion, avolation, flight, escape, retreat, recoil, departure, rejection, shirker, truant, fugitive, refugee, runaway, runagate, maroon, unsought, unattempted, avoiding, neutral, shy of, elusive, evasive, fugitive, runaway, shy, wild, Adj, lest, in order to avoid, Int, forbear!, keep off, hands off!, sauve qui peut!, every man for himself!, devil take the hindmost!, things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.