verb
skive
Skive (verb) means (informal) To dodge lessons or work instead of doing them.
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(informal) To dodge lessons or work instead of doing them.
"Truancies, rather bewilderingly, have risen among children on the programme; the government hopes this is because children skive more as they get older."
— The Economist, Young offenders: Arrested development (2006)
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Etymology
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 (“afraid, barefaced”), from Proto-Germanic *skeuhaz (“afraid, frightened”). It is cognate with English shy and eschew.
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What is the meaning of skive?
"skive" (verb) means (informal) To dodge lessons or work instead of doing them.
What is another word for skive?
Other words for "skive" include skip.
