skive

Meaning

Verb

To avoid one's lessons or work (chiefly at school or university); shirk.

Noun

1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, informal) Something very easy, where one can slack off without penalty.
2. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, informal) An act of avoiding lessons or work.

Noun

1. A rotating iron disk coated with oil and diamond dust used to polish the facets of a diamond.
2. An angled cut or bevel at the edge of something.

Synonyms

cut

slash

cleave

dart

🎯

draw

fist

✊

grind

lap

polish

🇵🇱

rarefy

rend

rive

rub

shirk

shred

slit

sliver

slot

splinter

split

tear

thin

thin out

water down

bunk off

wear

chip

Translations

schwänzen

svignarsela

κόπτω

σχίζω

faire bleu

sécher

tirer au flanc

snijden

blaumachen

splitsen

bummeln

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈskaɪv/

Etymology

Cognate with English: shy

Cognate with English: shive

Cognate with German: Scheibe

Cognate with Old Norse: skífa

In summary

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.