Dictionary entry

Skive

Pronunciation: /skʌɪv/

Pronunciation

/skʌɪv/

Myanmar Meaning

အလုပ်ကို ရှောင်သည်။ ကျောင်းပြေးသည်။

Definition

skive /skaÇv/ v ~ (off) ( Brit infml ) (အလုပ္မွ)လစ္သည္။ ‘Where's Tom?’ ‘Skiving as usual!’ ❍ She always skives off early.

Examples

  1. ‘So we skived off for another cup of tea and I lent him my towel.’
  2. ‘It was a warm
  3. sunny Thursday and Belinda had skived off her unofficial work to join Astor for some sunbathing.’
  4. ‘He skived off quite a lot to go to band warm up session and meet people in the industry and it obviously paid off!’
  5. ‘I'm not sure what he was getting so upset about
  6. but I think he was partly mad because some people had skived off the rehearsal.’
  7. ‘If I hadn't skived off work early to go see
  8. I'd have been angry at the waste of my time.’
  9. ‘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.’
  10. ‘You think I skived off without blogging anything today
  11. right?’
  12. ‘Then how do you know I skived off two other classes?’
  13. ‘I always wondered what Wibbler got up to whilst apparently skiving from his blog duties.’
  14. ‘He had come back having skived off on his birthday
  15. so the lads had made sure he'd stay there.’
  16. ‘BA admits that not one single check-in worker has been disciplined in recent years for bunking off or skiving.’
  17. ‘He won't be able to accuse me of having sold it on the black market and skived off with the proceeds.’
  18. ‘I'm not completely skiving
  19. though - Friday was sick leave
  20. and today was a day of ‘education’ at a local ‘learning centre’.’
  21. ‘In the end
  22. I skived off to a side street and made myself as inconspicuous as possible so I could get up to date.’
  23. ‘Having said that
  24. being a professional skiver
  25. I have devised tactics
  26. strategies and contingency plans to prolong skiving.’
  27. ‘But seeing as though you're reading this
  28. you're probably already on first-name terms with office skiving.’
  29. ‘Children have been skiving off school for years.’
  30. ‘In my own book I have included a chapter on skiving.’
  31. ‘It doesn't seem to matter how old I am
  32. driving away from the office at any time before 5: 30 pm always feels like skiving.’
  33. ‘Truancy officers caught 154 children skiving between September and December last year
  34. 42 of whom were with their parents.’