skiver
Meaning
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- A slacker.
- A truant; one who is absent without permission, especially from school.
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈskaɪvɚ/
Etymology
From skive (“play truant”) + -er. Probably from French esquiver (“slink away”).
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