Noun: skive
| Singular | skive |
| Plural | skives |
Sample Sentences
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Mr Smith's history classes are a total skive.
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I got the bus to school, and the driver gave me the eye, thinking I was on the skive, and I started to explain that there was something up with my head, but then I couldn't be bothered. [2007, Anthony McGowan, Henry Tumour, →ISBN, page 8:]
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Another school skive! I only realised this when my dentist's receptionist told me to expect a fair wait till I could be seen. [2011, Catherine Forde, Sugarcoated, →ISBN:]
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But at least they preserved the idea that books were important and that reading and writing were more than just a skive for people too weedy to hack at one another with swords. [2011, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen, Terry Pratchett, The Science Of Discworld II: The Globe, →ISBN, page 202:]
Nouns inflected like skive
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Probably from French esquiver (“slink away”), from Middle French esquiver (“to escape”), from Spanish esquivar (“to avoid, reject, elude”), from esquivo (“contemptuous, loathsome”), itself from Old French eschiver, of East Germanic origin, from Gothic *𐍃𐌺𐌹𐌿𐌷𐍃 (*skiuhs, “afraid, barefaced”), from Proto-Germanic *skeuhaz (“afraid, frightened”). Cognate with English shy, eschew. See: English Nouns '
shy'.