goldbrick
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Is goldbrick a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (US, slang, dated) A shirker or malingerer.Examples: "Mac, there’s not a confounded thing wrong with you. You are an excellent physical specimen and in good health. You’re nothing but a goldbrick. Now, get your butt out of here and don’t ever come back again unless you’re really sick or need an immunization."; "Tell me that I’ve been a louse and loafer You won’t get a fight here, no ma’am Say I’m a goldbrick, a goof-off, no good But that couldn’t be all that I am"Synonyms: goldbrickerUSdatedslang
2. (US, slang, dated) A swindler.Synonyms: goldbrickerUSdatedslang
verb (English)
1. (US, slang, dated) To shirk or malinger.Examples: "I'd just as soon goldbrick with malaria as with anything else."; "He learned to despise the Germans, people he once thought fit to rule the world, but now so craven they ate French dirt for a glass of cheap campagne; he mastered the art of goldbricking. Sitting at his desk, bored and full of hate, he got fat and dreamed of Paris."USdatedslang
2. (US, slang, dated) To swindle.USdatedslang
Definition source: Wiktionary