skiver
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
skive (“play truant”) + -er. Probably from French esquiver (“slink away”).
Noun[edit]
skiver (plural skivers)
- A slacker.
- A truant; one who is absent without permission, especially from school.
Etymology 2[edit]
skive (“to shave”) + -er. Probably from Dutch schijf (“slice”),[1] probably influenced by shive.
Noun[edit]
skiver (plural skivers)
- One who uses a skive (or skives).
- (dialect) A skewer.
- An inferior quality of leather, made of split sheepskin, tanned by immersion in sumac, and dyed, formerly used for hat linings, pocketbooks, bookbinding, etc.
- The cutting tool or machine used in splitting leather or skins.
Verb[edit]
skiver (third-person singular simple present skivers, present participle skivering, simple past and past participle skivered)
- (UK, dialect) To skewer, impale.
- 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “chapter 10”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC:
- […] it's I that wishes I could be sure 'twas malice, I'd skiver you, heels and elbows, on my sword, and roast you alive on that fire.
- 1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, “chapter 9”, in The Woodlanders […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
- I'll finish heating the oven, and set you free to go and skiver up them ducks.
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Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Noun[edit]
skiver m or f
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Noun[edit]
skiver f
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