malinger
verb
[ məˈlɪŋɡə ]
• pretend to be ill in order to escape duty or work.
• "people who had psychosomatic complaints were probably malingering"
Similar:
pretend to be ill,
feign/fake illness,
pretend to be an invalid,
sham,
shirk,
skulk,
put it on,
skive,
swing the lead,
goldbrick,
Origin:
early 19th century: back-formation from malingerer, apparently from French malingre, perhaps formed as mal- ‘wrongly’ + haingre ‘weak’, probably of Germanic origin.
