different between truant vs malinger

English

Etymology

From Middle English truant, truand, trewande, trowant (= Middle Dutch trouwant, trawant, truwant), from Old French truand, truant (“a vagabond, beggar, rogue", also "beggarly, roguish”), of Celtic origin, perhaps from Gaulish *trugan, or from Breton truan (“wretched”), from Proto-Celtic *térh?-tro-m, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *terh?-.

Cognate with Scottish Gaelic truaghan, Irish trogha (“destitute”), trogán, Breton truc (“beggar”), Welsh tru.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??nt
• IPA^(key): /?t???nt ~ ?t?u?.?nt/

Adjective

truant (not comparable)

1. Absent without permission, especially from school.

2. Wandering from business or duty; straying; loitering; idle, and shirking duty.
   • Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. […] She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.

Derived terms

• truant officer

Translations

Noun

truant (plural truants)

1. One who is absent without permission, especially from school.

Derived terms

• play truant

Translations

Verb

truant (third-person singular simple present truants, present participle truanting, simple past and past participle truanted)

1. (intransitive) To play truant.

2. (transitive) To idle away; to waste.
   • 1636, John Ford, The Fancies Chaste and Noble

     I dare not be the author / Of truanting the time.

3. To idle away time.
   • 1876, James Russell Lowell, Among My Books:Second Series, Milton

     By this means they lost their time and truanted on the fundamental grounds of saving knowledge.

References

Anagrams

• traunt

English

Etymology

From French malingrer, from adjective malingre (“delicate, fragile”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m??l????/
• (US) IPA^(key): /m??l????/
• Rhymes: -????(?)

Verb

malinger (third-person singular simple present malingers, present participle malingering, simple past and past participle malingered)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To feign illness, injury, or incapacitation in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk.

   Hypernyms: (dated) goldbrick, shirk

   • 1984, The Psychiatric Quarterly, Volume 56

     It has been the impression of past investigators that persons who malinger psychosis have latent tendencies for the condition.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To self-inflict real injury or infection (to inflict self-harm) in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk.

Derived terms

• malingerer
• malingering
• malingery

Translations

See also

• factitious disorder, differentiated from malingering by a component of real mental illness as opposed to solely a sane calculation of shirking

Anagrams

• Germinal, germinal, maligner

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

malinger m or f

1. indefinite plural of maling