| NOUN | person | goldbrick | a soldier who performs his duties without proper care or effort |
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| person | goldbrick, goof-off, ne'er-do-well, good-for-nothing, no-account, good-for-naught | an idle worthless person | |
| artifact | goldbrick | a brick-shaped block that looks like gold but is not | |
| act | goldbrick | anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless | |
| VERB | social | goldbrick, victimize, swindle, rook, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, hornswoggle, short-change, con | deprive of by deceit |
| social | goldbrick, fiddle, shirk, shrink from | avoid (one's assigned duties) |
| Meaning | A soldier who performs his duties without proper care or effort. | |
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| Broader | slacker, shirker | A person who shirks / shirks his work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime) |
| soldier | An enlisted ... / enlisted man or woman who serves in an army | |
| Meaning | An idle worthless person. | |
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| Synonyms | goof-off, ne'er-do-well, good-for-nothing, no-account, good-for-naught | |
| Broader | idler, loafer, do-nothing, layabout, bum | person who does no work |
| Spanish | ablandabrevas, calamidad, cantonero, follón, inútil, mequetrefe, pelafustán, trasto | |
| Catalan | calamitat, desastre, dropo, inútil, torrapipes, trasto | |
| Meaning | A brick-shaped block that looks like gold but is not. | |
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| Broader | block, cube | A three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides |
| Meaning | Anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless. | |
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| Broader | fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, humbug, put-on | Something intended to deceive |
| Usage of | trope, figure of speech, figure, image | language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense |
| Meaning | deprive of by deceit. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s somebody PP | |
| Synonyms | victimize, swindle, rook, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, hornswoggle, short-change, con | |
| Narrower | short-change, short | cheat someone by not returning him enough money |
| Broader | cheat, rip off, chisel | deprive somebody of something by deceit |
| Spanish | dar gato por liebre, defraudar, embaucar, engañar, estafar, petardear, timar, victimizar | |
| Catalan | defraudar, entabanar, estafar | |
| Meaning | avoid (one's assigned duties). | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
| Synonyms | fiddle, shirk, shrink from | |
| Narrower | malinger, skulk | avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill |
| scrimshank | (British military language) avoid work | |
| slack | avoid responsibilities and work, be idle | |
| Broader | avoid | Refrain from doing something |
| Spanish | correr, eludir, esquivar, evadir | |
| Nouns | goldbricking | the evasion of work or duty |
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