Word: shirkings
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: shir
kings
Definition: Plural of shirking; avoid (one's assigned duties)
Morphemes:
Affix: shirk
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: One who shirks, who avoids a duty or responsibility.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: Schurke
Language: de
Decoded: Schurke
Meaning: rogue, knave
Affix: -ing
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form gerunds, a type of verbal nouns, from verbs.
Affix: -s
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form the plural of nouns that correctly take just an "s" in the plural. See greengrocer’s apostrophe.