Noun

• S: (n) goldbrick (a soldier who performs his duties without proper care or effort)
• S: (n) goldbrick, goof-off, ne'er-do-well, good-for-nothing, no-account, good-for-naught (an idle worthless person)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) idler, loafer, do-nothing, layabout, bum (person who does no work) "a lazy bum"
• derivationally related form
• S: (n) goldbrick (a brick-shaped block that looks like gold but is not)
• S: (n) goldbrick (anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless)

Verb

• S: (v) victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, hornswoggle, short-change, con (deprive of by deceit) "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her";
• S: (v) fiddle, shirk, shrink from, goldbrick (avoid (one's assigned duties)) "The derelict soldier shirked his duties"