skive

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If someone wants to skive off work for a week sick, they just phone in with 'ordinary flu' or 'back ache'.

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  1. transitive verb To cut thin layers off (leather or rubber, for example); pare.

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  • Boris Johnson: Congestion charge suspended today - but the snow's not "an excuse for a mass skive off work" —  ConservativeHome
  • Phillip Schofield decides to skive off work with the rest of us, Tom Jones finally decides to grow old gracefully and Groundhog says we've still got six more weeks left of Winter. —  TV Scoop
  • Phillip Schofield decides to skive off work with the rest of us, Tom Jones finally decides to grow old gracefully and Groundhog says we've got six more weeks of Winter. —  TV Scoop
  • I was torn, in the snow, between my natural urge to skive and enjoy the weather, and the burning need within me to wear appropriate clothing and battle the elements. —  Mirror.co.uk - News
  • I'll go further: even though, as before here discussed, every freeborn man and woman has a certain unalienable right to try to skive, idle and lounge during each of those 60-minute sold chunks of life, and even though in these nasty times we all feel grateful just to have a job, —  Mirror.co.uk - News
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  1. Of Scandinavian origin; see skei- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. An unassibilated form of shive. Cf. skive, v.
  2. An unassibilated form of shive, v., from shive, n. Cf. skiver.
  3. Prob. from skiff, a.; or a variant of skew (cf skiver, as related to skewer).
 

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