verb
skive
Skive (verb) means to avoid one's lessons or work (chiefly at school or university); shirk.
verb
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To avoid one's lessons or work (chiefly at school or university); shirk.
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Etymology
Probably from French esquiver (“slink away”), from Middle French esquiver (“to escape”), from Spanish esquivar (“to avoid, reject, elude”), from esquivo (“contemptuous, loathsome”), itself from Old French eschiver, of East Germanic origin, from Gothic *𐍃𐌺𐌹𐌿𐌷𐍃 (*skiuhs, “afraid, barefaced”), from Proto-Germanic *skeuhaz (“afraid, frightened”). Cognate with English shy, eschew.
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"skive" (verb) means to avoid one's lessons or work (chiefly at school or university); shirk.