Crossword clues for shirk
shirk
- Evade, as duties
- Do some goldbricking
- Neglect, as responsibilities
- Neglect, as one's duty
- Neglect, as duty
- Neglect an obligation
- Ignore one's duties
- Duck, as duties
- Dodge, as one's duty
- Dodge (work)
- Blow off work, say
- Avoid, as duty
- Avoid one's duty
- Avoid irresponsibly
- Avoid (work)
- ___ one's duty (goof off)
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shirk \Shirk\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shirked; p. pr. & vb. n. Shirking.] [Probably the same word as shark. See Shark, v. t.]
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To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.
You that never heard the call of any vocation, . . . that shirk living from others, but time from Yourselves.
--Bp. Rainbow. -
To avoid; to escape; to neglect; -- implying unfaithfulness or fraud; as, to shirk duty.
The usual makeshift by which they try to shirk difficulties.
--Hare.
Shirk \Shirk\, v. i.
To live by shifts and fraud; to shark.
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To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away.
One of the cities shirked from the league.
--Byron.
Shirk \Shirk\, n. One who lives by shifts and tricks; one who avoids the performance of duty or labor.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, "to practice fraud or trickery," also a noun (1630s, now obsolete) "a needy, disreputable parasite" [OED], perhaps from German schurke "scoundrel, rogue, knave, villain" (see shark (n.)). Sense of "evade one's work or duty" first recorded 1785, originally in slang. Related: Shirked; shirking.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. one who shirks vb. 1 (context transitive English) To avoid, especially a duty, responsibility, etc.; to stay away from. 2 (context intransitive English) To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away. 3 To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation. Etymology 2
n. (context Islam English) the unforgivable sin of idolatry
WordNet
v. avoid (one's assigned duties); "The derelict soldier shirked his duties" [syn: fiddle, shrink from, goldbrick]
avoid dealing with; "She shirks her duties"
Wikipedia
Shirk may refer to:
- Shirk (surname)
- Shirk (Islam), in Islam, the sin of idolatry or associating beings or things with Allah
- Shirk, Iran, a village in South Khorasan Province, Iran
- Shirk-e Sorjeh, a village in South Khorasan Province, Iran
- "Shirk break", a synonym for coffee break
- Shirking model, part of the economic principle of the efficiency wage
- USS Shirk (DD-318), a United States Navy destroyer in service 1921 to 1930
Shirk is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Amos Urban Shirk (c. 1890 – 1956), American businessman
- Bill Shirk (born 1945), American escape artist
- Gary Shirk (born 1950), American football player
- George H. Shirk (1913–1977), American lawyer and historian
- James Shirk (1832–1873), American naval officer
- John Shirk (1917–1993), American football player
- Ken Shirk, American triathlete and ultramarathon runner
- Matthew Shirk (born 1973), American lawyer
- Susan Shirk, American academic
In Islam, shirk ( širk) is the sin of practicing idolatry or polytheism, i.e. the deification or worship of anyone or anything other than the singular God i.e. Allah. Literally, it means ascribing or the establishment of "partners" placed beside God. It is the vice that is opposed to the virtue of Tawhid ( monotheism). Those who practice shirk are termed mushrikun.
Within Islam, shirk is an unforgivable crime if it remains unpardoned before death: Allah may forgive any sin if one dies in that state except for committing shirk.
The word širk comes from the Arabic root Š- R- K , with the general meaning of "to share". In the context of the Quran, the particular sense of "sharing as an equal partner" is usually understood, so that polytheism means "attributing a partner to Allah". In the Qur'an, shirk and the related word mušrikūn (مشركون), — those who commit shirk and plot against Islam — often refer to the enemies of Islam (as in verse 9.1–15).
Usage examples of "shirk".
He staggered and barely caught himself, hand grasping at dirt, claws shirking out to scrape earth and send it spattering to the ground.
Charens became a leader of the poor, demanding reforms: such as compelling the rich to pay taxes, which irksome duty they had thitherto managed most featly to shirk.
Land of Cockaigne, where they could shirk work in luxury instead of squalor.
English vocal style of the future will have to be modelled after the German style, which, instead of shirking difficult consonants boldly tackles and utilizes them.
His feeling was that a lot of doctors shirk their responsibilities when it comes to death and dying.
Please inform President Grozny that the United States will not launch any missiles at the Russian Federation or her allies, but we will not shirk our responsibilities in defending the State of Israel.
He pounded Pitts for his continuing failure to deliver his dissertation, and for shirking his responsibilities to MIT and the Guggenheim Foundation to complete his protracted doctoral program.
Every one of the popular modern phrases and ideals is a dodge in order to shirk the problem of what is good.
The good priest did not shirk what might have made the readiest of soldiers nervous.
Some of the boys shirked, wasting time and machinery by not replacing the small bobbins when they ran out.
Was it a shirking of plain duty on my part that wish - that ever-present hope - that the murderous company of fanatics who had pursued the stolen slipper from its ancient resting-place to London, should succeed in recovering it?
He had found out that the saving so effected would be material to Lopez, and had resolved that there should be no shirking of the truth in what he was prepared to do.
She shirks her chores, and she is always sneaking off to watch the Warders practice their swords.
Some day he’d have the entire Army in his files, and then let the bheromen try to shirk their sworn service to the crown!
Then the sleepless Boots went shirking round from door to door, gathering up at each the Bluchers, Wellingtons, Oxonians, which stood outside.