skive
1 synonym for skive, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Verb — (informal) To dodge lessons or work instead of doing them.
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This word probably comes from French esquiver (“slink away”), which developed from Middle French esquiver (“to escape”), from Spanish esquivar (“to avoid, reject, elude”), from esquivo (“contemptuous, loathsome”), which itself came from Old French eschiver. That word was of East Germanic origin, from Gothic *skiuhs (“a...
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