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Skiving
To avoid one's lessons or work (chiefly at school or university); shirk.
📖 Definitions of "Skiving"
verb
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To avoid one's lessons or work (chiefly at school or university); shirk.
verb
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To pare or shave off the rough or thick parts of.
noun
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A piece made in skiving (the paring or splitting of leather), especially the part from the inner, or flesh, side.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Skiving"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| skivernoun | A slacker. |
| splitnoun | A crack or longitudinal fissure. |
| hidingnoun | (uncountable) A state of concealment. |
| scelpnoun | Alternative form of skelp (“narrow strip of rolled or forged metal”). [A blow; a smart stroke, especially with the hand; a smack.] |
| sluffnoun | An avalanche, mudslide, or a like slumping of material or debris. |
| shorelingnoun | Alternative form of shorling. [(UK, dialect, obsolete) The skin of a sheep after the fleece is shorn off, as distinct from the morling, or skin taken from the dead sheep.] |
| shorlingnoun | (UK, dialect, obsolete) A person who is shorn; a shaveling. |
| spetchesnoun | (archaic) The cuttings, shavings and other refuse of animal hides, used to make glue. |
| skeelingnoun | Alternative form of skeiling. [(architecture) A straight sloped part of a ceiling, such as on the underside of a pitched roof.] |
| spalenoun | A lath; a shaving or chip, as of wood or stone. |
| sclaffnoun | (golf) A poor golf shot, where the club hits the ground before it hits the ball. |
| paringnoun | A fragment or shaving that has been pared. |
| scummingnoun | (video games, derogatory) The strategy of collecting easy rewards in unchallenging areas, e.g. when a high-level character visits levels suitable for low-level characters in roguelike games. |
| sloughnoun | The skin shed by a snake or other reptile. |
| scytheworknoun | The work of cutting with a scythe. |
| scutchingnoun | The separation of the woody shives from flax, hemp, and jute fibres by beating with a scutch. |
| splintnoun | (medicine) A device to immobilize a body part. |
| skin jobnoun | (science-fiction, slang) A robot or android with humanoid flesh and skin. |
| skippetnoun | A small, round box used for keeping documents and seals or for covering seals attached to documents |
| skivvynoun | (US, Australia, New Zealand) A close-fitting, long-sleeved T-shirt with a rolled collar. |
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