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Definition: Malinger |
MalingerVerb1. Avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "malinger" was first used: 1785. (references) |
Note: Malinger \Ma*lin"ger\, intransitive verb. [imperative past participle MAlingered; present participle verb or noun Malingering.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: MalingerSynonym: skulk (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Falsehood | Dissemble, dissimulate; feign, assume, put on, pretend, make believe; play possum; play false, play a double game; coquet; act a part, play a part; affect; simulate, pass off for; counterfeit, sham, make a show of; malinger; say the grapes are sour. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Malinger |
| English words defined with "malinger": MAlingered ♦ To sham Abram. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Malinger" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Malinger" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ross malinger | 26 |
malinger | 10 |
ashley malinger | 7 |
malinger picture ross | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "malinger"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | simuloj (fake), shtrihem i sëmurë. (various references) | |
Arabic | تمارض (malingering, possum, swing the lead), تهرب (avoidance, be truant, beg the question, evade, fight shy of, fly in the face of, get in, hedge, shirk, shun, sidestep, skulk, swing the lead). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | симулирам (dissimulate, feign, sham, simulate), преструвам се на болен. (various references) | |
Chinese | 开小差 (MAlingered, malingering). (various references) | |
Czech | simulovat (feign, simulate). (various references) | |
Danish | simulere. (various references) | |
Dutch | simuleren (feign, feint, pretend, simulation). (various references) | |
Farsi | تمارض کردن , خودرابناخوشی زدن . (various references) | |
French | simuler une maladie, simuler la maladie, faire semblant d'être malade, faire le malade. (various references) | |
German | simulieren (feign, feign illness, meditate, ruminate, sham, simulate, to simulate). (various references) | |
Greek | κάνω τον άρρωστο, κακόβουλοσ (carping, malevolent, malign), συκοφάντησ (calumniator, mud slinger, slanderer, sycophant, traducer), προσποιούμαι τον άρρωστο, ψευτοάρρωστοσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מלשין (calumniator, delator, denouncer, fink, informer, slanderer, squealer, telltale), ל"תחלות, ל"שתמט (dodge, escape, eschew, evade, neglect, shirk, swing the lead, temporize), "ולך רכיל (gadabout, gossipmonger). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szimulál (to counterfeit, to malinger, to simulate), színlel (make believe, pretend, simulate, to affect, to feign, to pretend, to put on, to simulate, to take on), betegnek tetteti magát (to malinger, to put on the invalid). (various references) | |
Italian | simulare una malattia, fingersi malato, darsi malato. (various references) | |
Korean | 꾀병을 부리십시". (various references) | |
Manx | lhiggey chingys. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alingermay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | malignidade (felloe, malice, malignancy, virulence, virus). (various references) | |
Romanian | simula o boalã, simula (act, affect, assume, dissemble, feign, imitate, make, make believe, play off, pretend, sham, simulate), se preface bolnav. (various references) | |
Russian | симулировать болезнь, притворяться больным (sham Abraham). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zabušavati (avoid, shirk, skulk), simulirati (assume the appearance, dissemble, fake, feign, simulate). (various references) | |
Spanish | hacerse el enfermo. (various references) | |
Swedish | simulera (affect, dissemble, dissimulate, fake, feign, pretend, sham, simulate, swing the lead). (various references) | |
Turkish | hasta numarası yapmak (play possum, pretend to be sick, sham ill). (various references) | |
Ukranian | симулювати хворобу. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| French | 1500-Modern | malingrer. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "malinger": malingered, malingerer, malingerers, malingering, malingers. (additional references) | |
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"Malinger" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Allinger, Gallinger, Haflinger, mabinogi, Macindeor, Madingley, maigre, mailinger, mainger, mainier, malange, maligna, maline, malingere, Malingreau, Mallinder, mallinger, Mellingen, Mellinger, Meringer, Modlinger, Mohinder, Molinier, Molongua, Mullinger, Salingar, salinger. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "malinger" (pronounced 'Ma*lin"ger'): Agger, Arranger, Assuager, Astringer, Auger, Avenger, Barger, Besieger, Blancmanger, Blunger, Boroughmonger, Bragger, Bugger, Bulger, Changer, Charger, Cogger, Conger, Cringer, Deranger, Discharger, Disobliger, Drugger, Endanger, Engager, Enhunger, Enlarger, Estranger, Exchanger, flogger, forger, Gager, Gagger, Gauger, gouger, Granger, Hogger, Indulger, Infringer, jogger, Juger, Jugger, lager, lagger, logger, lounger, maiger, manger, merger, nigger, obliger, Overeager, Overlinger, Pegger, Phalanger, Plugger, Plunger, Presager, Promulger, Pugger, Purger, Reforger, Revenger, Sauger, scourger, Shragger, slogger, slugger, Sniggger, Soger, Sparger, sponger, stager, Surcharger, Tagger, tiger, Tinger, trigger, tugger, Twagger, Twigger, Tyger, Urger, Venger, Virger, Yager, Youngger. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: germinal, maligner. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-l-m-n-r" | |
-1 letter: aligner, engrail, geminal, germina, gremial, gremlin, mangier, mangler, manlier, marline, marling, mineral, mingler, nargile, realign, reaming, reginal. | |
-2 letters: airmen, aliner, almner, angler, arming, earing, engram, enigma, gainer, gamier, gamine, genial, german, glaire, imager, laming, larine, legman, limner, linage, linear, lingam, linger, maigre, mailer, malgre, malign, maline, mangel, manger, mangle, margin, marine, marlin, menial, merlin, milage, mingle, mirage, nailer, ragmen, reagin, regain, regina, regnal, remail, remain, renail. | |
-3 letters: agile, aimer, algin, alien, align, aline, amine, angel, anger, angle, anile, anime, argil, argle, ariel, elain, email, gamer, gamin, garni, gimel, glair, glare, gleam, glean, glime, gnarl, grail, grain, grime, image, inarm, ingle, lager, lamer, large, learn, leman, liane, liang, ligan, liger, liman, limen, liner, linga, maile, mange, marge, miler, minae, miner, namer, ramen, ramie, range, realm, regal, regma, regna, reign, reman, renal, renig. | |
-4 letters: ager, agin, airn, alme, amen, amie, amin, amir, anil, aril, earl, earn, egal, elan, emir, gaen, gain, gale, game, gane, gear, germ, gien, girl, girn, glen, glia, glim, gnar, gram, gran, grim, grin, ilea, lain, lair, lame, lane, lang, lari, lean, lear, liar, lien, lier, lima, lime, limn, line, ling, lira, lire, mage, magi, mail, main, mair, male, mane, mare, marl, meal, mean, merl, mien, mile, mina, mine, mire, nail, name, near, nema, rage, ragi, rail, rain, rale, rami, rang, rani, real, ream, rein, rial, riel, rile, rime, ring. | |
-5 letters: age, ail, aim, ain, air, ale, ami, ane, ani, are, arm, ear, elm, eng, era, erg, ern, gae, gal, gam, gan, gar, gel, gem, gen, gie, gin, ire, lag, lam, lar, lea, leg, lei, lie, lin, mae, mag, man, mar, meg, mel, men, mig, mil, mir, nae, nag, nam, nil, nim, rag, ram, ran, reg, rei, rem, ria, rig, rim, rin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-l-m-n-r" | |
+1 letter: greenmail, maligners, malingers, marveling, remailing, trameling. | |
+2 letters: clambering, germinally, greenmails, impearling, malingered, malingerer, managerial, marcelling, martingale, marvelling, mineralogy, multirange, reclaiming, regimental, resampling, rosemaling, tramelling, trammeling, trigeminal. | |
+3 letters: beclamoring, beglamoring, embracingly, embrangling, greenmailed, greenmailer, impregnable, impregnably, legerdemain, malingerers, malingering, maltreating, marbleising, marbleizing, marginalize, martingales, meliorating, mineralogic, misaltering, mislearning, misrelating, pelargonium, realignment, regimentals, regionalism, rosemalings, screamingly, trammelling, trigeminals, umbrellaing. | |
+4 letters: ameliorating, beglamouring, caramelising, caramelizing, demoralizing, descrambling, greenmailers, greenmailing, legerdemains, managerially, marginalized, marginalizes, metalworking, mineralising, mineralizing, mineralogies, mineralogist, overclaiming, pelargoniums, premalignant, realignments, reassembling, regionalisms, reimplanting, steamrolling, streamlining, telegramming, thermalizing, unglamorized. | |
+5 letters: agglomerating, agglomeration, conglomeratic, deformalizing, deglamorizing, ergonomically, flameproofing, fragmentarily, galvanometric, generalissimo, germinability, intermarginal, marginalities, materialising, materializing, memorialising, memorializing, metalworkings, mineralogical, mineralogists, multiregional, nonmanagerial, numerological, oleomargarine, perambulating, reformulating, renormalizing, restimulating, semilegendary, slipstreaming, somersaulting, syringomyelia, telemarketing, temporalizing, troublemaking. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 6C 69 6E 67 65 72 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- .-.. .. -. --. . .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a l i n g e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 006C 0069 006E 0067 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4767787580737184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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