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Definition: Goldbrick |
GoldbrickNoun1. A soldier who performs his duties without proper care or effort. 2. An idle worthless person. 3. A brick-shaped block that looks like gold but is not. 4. Anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless. Verb1. 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". 2. Avoid (one's assigned duties); "The derelict soldier shirked his duties". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: GoldbrickSynonyms: good-for-naught (n), good-for-nothing (n), goof-off (n), ne'er-do-well (n), bunco (v), con (v), defraud (v), diddle (v), gyp (v), mulct (v), nobble (v), rook (v), scam (v), shirk (v), shrink from (v), swindle (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inactivity | Idler, drone, droil, dawdle, mopus; do-little faineant, dummy, sleeping partner; afternoon farmer; truant; (runaway) : bummer, loafer, goldbrick, goldbicker, lounger, lazzarone; lubber, lubbard; slow coach; (slow.); opium eater, lotus eater; slug; lag, sluggard, slugabed; slumberer, dormouse, marmot; waiter on Providence, fruges consumere natus. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Goldbrick (1943) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
goldbrick | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "goldbrick"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Farsi | طفره رو (Dodger, Procrastinator, Shirk, Truant). (various references) | |
German | Schwindel (vertigo, dizziness, bogus, confidence game, fraud, giddiness, swindle). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oldbrickgay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "goldbrick": goldbricked, goldbricking, goldbricks. (additional references) | |
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"Goldbrick" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: golddrick, Goldrick. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-d-g-i-k-l-o-r" | |
-1 letter: gridlock. | |
-4 letters: block, boric, brick, brock, broil, cibol, corgi, dolci, logic, orgic. | |
-5 letters: bilk, bird, birk, birl, bloc, bock, boil, bold, brig, brio, clod, clog, coil, coir, cold, cord, cork, crib, dick, diol, dirk, dirl, dock, dork, drib, gild, gird, girl, giro, glib, glob, gold, grid, idol, kilo, lick, lido, loci, lock, lord. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-d-g-i-k-l-o-r" | |
+1 letter: goldbricks. | |
+2 letters: goldbricked. | |
+3 letters: goldbricking, roadblocking. | |
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