malinger

name

1. A surname.

verb

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

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

   “It is not uncommon on exam days for several students to malinger rather than prepare themselves.”

   “And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully! / Smoothed by long fingers, / Asleep … tired … or it malingers, / Stretched on the floor, here beside you and me.”

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