malingerer

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
malingerer
    n 1: someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or
         incapacity [syn: {malingerer}, {skulker}, {shammer}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Malingerer \Ma*lin"ger*er\, n. [F. malingre sickly, weakly,
   prob. from mal ill + OF. heingre, haingre, thin, lean,
   infirm, fr. L. aeger.]
   In the army, a soldier who feigns himself sick, or who
   induces or protracts an illness, in order to avoid doing his
   duty; hence, in general, one who shirks his duty by
   pretending illness or inability.
   [1913 Webster]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
50 Moby Thesaurus words for "malingerer":
      blagueur, bluff, bluffer, bungler, charlatan, clock watcher,
      disregarder, dodger, eye-servant, fake, faker, fourflusher, fraud,
      goldbrick, goldbricker, goof-off, humbug, idler, ignorer,
      impersonator, impostor, mountebank, neglecter, negligent,
      old soldier, phony, poser, poseur, pretender, procrastinator,
      quack, quacksalver, quackster, ringer, saltimbanco, sham, shammer,
      shirk, shirker, skulk, skulker, slacker, sloven, slut, soldier,
      tax dodger, trifler, truant, waiter on Providence, welsher
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