shirker
a person who avoids doing work (is demotivated)
TRANSLATION
shirker = Drückeberger to shirk = ausweichen, vermeiden to shirk sth. = sich vor etw. drücken to shirk one's duties = sich seinen Pflichten entziehen to shirk responsibility = sich vor der Verantwortung drücken
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Japanese men SHIRK housework.
Japanese men are among the laziest in the world when it comes to housework, according to a survey.
They spend only a quarter as much time on household chores as American men, and only one-sixth of the time spent by Swedish men.
The study, by the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research, said Japanese men do only four hours of cooking, cleaning and other chores a week.
Japanese women spend 29 hours a week on housework
(BBC News - 13 March, 2002)
full text under: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1871274.stm
Japanese men are among the laziest in the world when it comes to housework, according to a survey.
They spend only a quarter as much time on household chores as American men, and only one-sixth of the time spent by Swedish men.
The study, by the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research, said Japanese men do only four hours of cooking, cleaning and other chores a week.
Japanese women spend 29 hours a week on housework
(BBC News - 13 March, 2002)
full text under: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1871274.stm
Did you
know?
shirk = to avoid or neglect (work, a duty or responsibility)
When shirk first appeared in the early 1600s, it was a verb meaning "to practice fraud or trickery, especially instead of working as a means of living." In due time, shirk picked up its "evade performance of an obligation" sense, and shirker (the noun) made its first print appearance in the late 1700s.
Synonyms:
cheat, creep, dodge, dog it, duck, elude, eschew, evade, featherbed, flub, flub off, fluff off, get around, goldbrick, goof off, gumshoe, lurk, malinger, pussyfoot, shuffle off, shun, sidestep, skulk, slack, slink, slip, sluff off, sneak
When shirk first appeared in the early 1600s, it was a verb meaning "to practice fraud or trickery, especially instead of working as a means of living." In due time, shirk picked up its "evade performance of an obligation" sense, and shirker (the noun) made its first print appearance in the late 1700s.
Synonyms:
cheat, creep, dodge, dog it, duck, elude, eschew, evade, featherbed, flub, flub off, fluff off, get around, goldbrick, goof off, gumshoe, lurk, malinger, pussyfoot, shuffle off, shun, sidestep, skulk, slack, slink, slip, sluff off, sneak
