Green’s Dictionary of Slang

goldbricking adj.

lazy, shirking.

1926		(con. 1918) L. Nason Chevrons 318: The prisoners and my goldbricking friends get turkey and the rest of you don’t?
1946		Mezzrow & Wolfe Really the Blues 321: [It] made me feel sort of inferior, a gold-bricking weakling.
1959		W. Burroughs Naked Lunch (1968) 103: Gold-bricking cocksuckers!
1962		(con. WWII) J.O. Killens And Then We Heard The Thunder (1964) 278: All right, you little goldbricking mother-lover, let’s get on the ball.
1966		‘Tom Pendleton’ Iron Orchard (1967) 175: You’re just a gold-brickin’ sonofabitch.
1982		W. Wharton Midnight Clear 72: This here’s the worst Goddamned goldbrickin’ fuck-off in the whole fuckin’ outfit.