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shirk
1633, "to practice fraud or trickery," also a noun (1639, now obs.) "a disreputable parasite," perhaps from Ger.
schurke
"scoundrel, rogue, knave, villain" (see
shark
). Sense of "evade one's work or duty" first recorded 1785, originally in slang.
