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verb skʌɪvskaɪv [no object]British informal Avoid work or a duty by staying away or leaving early; shirk. 逃避工作或责任；提早离开；躲避 我逃学了。 with object she used to skive lessons 她过去常逃课。 Example sentencesExamples - In my own book I have included a chapter on skiving.
- I'm not sure what he was getting so upset about, but I think he was partly mad because some people had skived off the rehearsal.
- Children have been skiving off school for years.
- I always wondered what Wibbler got up to whilst apparently skiving from his blog duties.
- If I hadn't skived off work early to go see, I'd have been angry at the waste of my time.
- BA admits that not one single check-in worker has been disciplined in recent years for bunking off or skiving.
- So we skived off for another cup of tea and I lent him my towel.
- Then how do you know I skived off two other classes?
- I'm not completely skiving, though - Friday was sick leave, and today was a day of ‘education’ at a local ‘learning centre’.
- You think I skived off without blogging anything today, right?
- In the end, I skived off to a side street and made myself as inconspicuous as possible so I could get up to date.
- But seeing as though you're reading this, you're probably already on first-name terms with office skiving.
- It was a warm, sunny Thursday and Belinda had skived off her unofficial work to join Astor for some sunbathing.
- Having said that, being a professional skiver, I have devised tactics, strategies and contingency plans to prolong skiving.
- He won't be able to accuse me of having sold it on the black market and skived off with the proceeds.
- I had said to myself that I would go to the gym after Dame G and Dr Sir T but I skived off and watched News 24 instead.
- It doesn't seem to matter how old I am, driving away from the office at any time before 5: 30 pm always feels like skiving.
- He skived off quite a lot to go to band warm up session and meet people in the industry and it obviously paid off!
- He had come back having skived off on his birthday, so the lads had made sure he'd stay there.
- Truancy officers caught 154 children skiving between September and December last year, 42 of whom were with their parents.
Synonyms malinger, pretend to be ill, feign/fake illness play truant, truant avoid work, evade one's duty, shirk, skulk, idle North American cut British informal bunk off, swing the lead, wag, scrimshank, dodge the column Irish informal mitch off North American informal goldbrick, play hookey, goof off Australian/New Zealand informal play the wag
noun skʌɪvskaɪv British informal 1An instance of avoiding work or a duty by staying away or leaving early. 逃避工作或责任；提早离开；躲避 Example sentencesExamples - Yes, notwithstanding all of the above, I do love the odd skive on my tod.
- Ebay is the most popular site for workers on the skive with four in ten admitting that they trawl the auction site while killing time at work.
- The vast majority of the truants would readily acknowledge in the aftermath that they were only out for a skive following a wind-up on the web.
- The train drivers must have called a strike, or a mass skive because of the heat.
- There's a couple at work who I suspect think it was nothing but a skive, mind, but I fully expected that.
- ‘I decided to give blood because it was a good skive out of the railway and after you'd donated you got your free tea and biscuits,’ he said.
- 1.1 An easy option.
轻易的选择 Example sentencesExamples - The checkout girl had thought it was a good skive, especially as her break was almost due.
- Tuesday and yesterday were a bit brighter and we did have a bit of a skive on Tuesday.
Derivativesnoun ˈskʌɪvəˈskaɪvər British informal Tesco has made a positive and brave step to kick work-shy skivers out of bed. Example sentencesExamples - Slackers and skivers everywhere should be grateful I'm not in charge.
- There may have been some skivers, although not many.
- I don't know anyone who is impressed with the Welsh Assembly; they all seem like very second-rate skivers.
- A poll of organisers found that 80 per cent think there are too many skivers and people who should be delegates are staying away.
Synonyms malingerer, shirker, work-dodger, idler, layabout informal do-nothing, slacker, cyberslacker, passenger British informal lead-swinger, scrimshanker North American informal gold brick, goof-off Australian/New Zealand informal bludger French archaic fainéant
OriginLate 19th century (originally US college slang): probably from French esquiver 'slink away'. Rhymesalive, arrive, chive, Clive, connive, contrive, deprive, dive, drive, five, gyve, hive, I've, jive, live, MI5, revive, rive, shrive, strive, survive, swive, thrive verb skʌɪvskaɪv [with object]technical Pare (the edge of a piece of leather or other material) so as to reduce its thickness. 〈技〉把（皮革或其他材料边缘）削成薄片；片皮 to join two ends of a strap, the ends are skived Example sentencesExamples - Bitspower's skiving technique seems a great way to remove the thermal junction between base and fins.
OriginEarly 19th century: from Old Norse skífa; related to shive. verbskīvskaɪv [no object]British informal Avoid work or a duty by staying away or leaving early; shirk. 逃避工作或责任；提早离开；躲避 我逃学了。 with object she used to skive lessons 她过去常逃课。 Example sentencesExamples - I always wondered what Wibbler got up to whilst apparently skiving from his blog duties.
- But seeing as though you're reading this, you're probably already on first-name terms with office skiving.
- In my own book I have included a chapter on skiving.
- Children have been skiving off school for years.
- He skived off quite a lot to go to band warm up session and meet people in the industry and it obviously paid off!
- BA admits that not one single check-in worker has been disciplined in recent years for bunking off or skiving.
- If I hadn't skived off work early to go see, I'd have been angry at the waste of my time.
- I'm not sure what he was getting so upset about, but I think he was partly mad because some people had skived off the rehearsal.
- You think I skived off without blogging anything today, right?
- It doesn't seem to matter how old I am, driving away from the office at any time before 5: 30 pm always feels like skiving.
- Truancy officers caught 154 children skiving between September and December last year, 42 of whom were with their parents.
- He won't be able to accuse me of having sold it on the black market and skived off with the proceeds.
- It was a warm, sunny Thursday and Belinda had skived off her unofficial work to join Astor for some sunbathing.
- In the end, I skived off to a side street and made myself as inconspicuous as possible so I could get up to date.
- I had said to myself that I would go to the gym after Dame G and Dr Sir T but I skived off and watched News 24 instead.
- I'm not completely skiving, though - Friday was sick leave, and today was a day of ‘education’ at a local ‘learning centre’.
- So we skived off for another cup of tea and I lent him my towel.
- He had come back having skived off on his birthday, so the lads had made sure he'd stay there.
- Having said that, being a professional skiver, I have devised tactics, strategies and contingency plans to prolong skiving.
- Then how do you know I skived off two other classes?
Synonyms malinger, pretend to be ill, fake illness, feign illness
nounskīvskaɪv British informal 1An instance of avoiding work or a duty. 逃避工作（或责任） Example sentencesExamples - ‘I decided to give blood because it was a good skive out of the railway and after you'd donated you got your free tea and biscuits,’ he said.
- Ebay is the most popular site for workers on the skive with four in ten admitting that they trawl the auction site while killing time at work.
- There's a couple at work who I suspect think it was nothing but a skive, mind, but I fully expected that.
- The train drivers must have called a strike, or a mass skive because of the heat.
- The vast majority of the truants would readily acknowledge in the aftermath that they were only out for a skive following a wind-up on the web.
- Yes, notwithstanding all of the above, I do love the odd skive on my tod.
- 1.1 An easy option.
轻易的选择 Example sentencesExamples - The checkout girl had thought it was a good skive, especially as her break was almost due.
- Tuesday and yesterday were a bit brighter and we did have a bit of a skive on Tuesday.
OriginLate 19th century (originally US college slang): probably from French esquiver ‘slink away’. verbskīvskaɪv [with object]technical Pare (the edge of a piece of leather or other material) so as to reduce its thickness. 〈技〉把（皮革或其他材料边缘）削成薄片；片皮 to join two ends of a strap, the ends are skived Example sentencesExamples - Bitspower's skiving technique seems a great way to remove the thermal junction between base and fins.
OriginEarly 19th century: from Old Norse skífa; related to shive. |