skive
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Is skive a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) To avoid one's lessons or work (chiefly at school or university); shirk.Examples: "Truancies, rather bewilderingly, have risen among children on the programme; the government hopes this is because children skive more as they get older."; "Work experience as an arsey teenager is pretty straightforward: disappear into the storeroom, smoke a few cigarettes, text your mates and watch the minute hand tick slowly by. If there's nowhere suitable to hide, all you need is a vacant computer and you can chat to your skiving associate in the building next door."Synonyms: skive off, skip, play hooky, play truantCommonwealthIrelandUKinformal
noun (English)
1. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) Something very easy, where one can slack off without penalty.Examples: "Mr Smith's history classes are a total skive."CommonwealthIrelandUKinformal
2. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) An act of avoiding lessons or work.Examples: "I got the bus to school, and the driver gave me the eye, thinking I was on the skive, and I started to explain that there was something up with my head, but then I couldn't be bothered."; "Another school skive! I only realised this when my dentist's receptionist told me to expect a fair wait till I could be seen."; "But at least they preserved the idea that books were important and that reading and writing were more than just a skive for people too weedy to hack at one another with swords."CommonwealthIrelandUKinformal
Definition source: Wiktionary