goldbrick : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: goldbrick	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
goldbrick n a soldier who performs his duties without proper care or effort an idle worthless person Synonym(s): goldbrick, goof-off, ne 'er-do-well, good-for-nothing, no-account, good-for- naught a brick-shaped block that looks like gold but is not anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless v deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change" Synonym(s): victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con avoid (one's assigned duties); "The derelict soldier shirked his duties" Synonym(s): fiddle, shirk, shrink from, goldbrick