malingerer

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
malinger /məˈlɪŋgə/

▶verb pretend to be ill in order to escape duty or work.

– derivatives
malingerer noun.

– origin C19: back-form. from malingerer, appar. from Fr. malingre, perh. formed as mal- ‘wrongly, improperly’ + haingre ‘weak’, prob. of Gmc origin.

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