goldbrick – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
goldbrick
n.
worthless brick made to appear as though it were made of gold; something which is worth little yet has the appearance of value; slacker, lazy person, one who avoids work (Military Slang)
Gold brick (disambiguation)
The term
gold brick or
goldbrick is dated American slang for a swindle selling a putative gold bar, by extension a swindle or swindler generally, more generally shrinking (slacking) or a shirker (slacker). It can also refer to:
goldbrick
Noun
1. a soldier who performs his duties without proper care or effort
(hypernym) soldier
2. an idle worthless person
(synonym) goof-off, ne'er-do-well, good-for-nothing, good-for-naught
(hypernym) idler, loafer, do-nothing, layabout, bum
3. a brick-shaped block that looks like gold but is not
(hypernym) block, cube
4. anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless
(hypernym) fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, humbug, put-on
Verb
1. 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) victimize, swindle, rook, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, con
(hypernym) cheat, rip off, chisel
(hyponym) short-change, short
2. avoid (one's assigned duties); "The derelict soldier shirked his duties"
(synonym) fiddle, shirk, shrink from
(hypernym) avoid
(hyponym) scrimshank
(derivation) shirking, slacking, soldiering, goofing off, goldbricking
goldbrick
Synonyms and related words:
abandon, boiler room, bucket shop, bum, bunco game, bungler, clock watcher, con game, confidence game, cut, dallier, dawdle, dawdler, diddler, dillydallier, disregarder, do-nothing, dodge, dodger, dog it, dolittle, doodler, drone, duck, duck duty, eye-servant, faineant, foot-dragger, gentleman of leisure, get out of, goldbricker, goof off, goof-off, idler, ignorer, jump, laggard, laze, lazy, leave, leave loose ends, leave undone, let alone, let be, let dangle, let go, lie-abed, lingerer, loaf, loafer, loiter, loiterer, loll, loller, lotus-eater, lounge, lounger, lubber, malinger, malingerer, miss, mope, moper, neglecter, negligent, not pull fair, old soldier, omit, pass over, pass up, plodder, potterer, pretermit, procrastinate, procrastinator, putterer, shell game, shirk, shirker, skin game, skip, skulk, skulker, slack, slacker, sleepyhead, slide out of, slinker, slip out of, slouch, sloucher, sloven, slow goer, slow-foot, slowbelly, slowpoke, slug, sluggard, slut, snail, sneak out of, soldier, spiv, stick-in-the-mud, tax dodger, thimblerig, thimblerigging, time killer, time waster, tortoise, trifle, trifler, truant, waiter on Providence, welsh, welsher
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
GOLDBRICK
PATACCA. [slang USA] SCANSAFATICHE. [slang USA] LAVATIVO. [USA] BATTERE LA FIACCA
