Shirk /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Shirked; p. pr. & vb. n. Shirking

1. 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.

2. To avoid; to escape; to neglect; -- implying unfaithfulness or fraud; as, to shirk duty.

   The usual makeshift by which they try to shirk difficulties.

1. To live by shifts and fraud; to shark.
2. To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away.

   One of the cities shirked from the league.

1. One who lives by shifts and tricks; one who avoids the performance of duty or labor.