Word Frequency
Translations for 'skive'
- British English: skive
If you skive, you avoid working, especially by staying away from the place where you should be working.The company treated me as though I were skiving.skaɪv VERB - Arabic: يَهْجُرُ
- Brazilian Portuguese: evitar trabalhar
- Chinese: 逃避劳动
- Croatian: zabušavati
- Czech: ulít se z práce ulívat se z práce
- Danish: pjække
- Dutch: drukken (zich)
- European Spanish: gandulear
- Finnish: lintsata
- French: tirer au flanc
- German: drücken (sich)
- Greek: λουφάρω
- Italian: schivare
- Japanese: 仕事をサボる
- Korean: 의무를 저버리다
- Norwegian: splitte
- Polish: lenić się
- Portuguese: baldar-se
- Romanian: a trândăvi
- Russian: увиливать
- Spanish: faltar a clase
- Swedish: skolka
- Thai: หนีงาน
- Turkish: kaytarmak
- Ukrainian: прогулювати прогуляти
- Vietnamese: trốn tránh trách nhiệm
Example Sentences Including 'skive'
As the Belfast Telegraph revealed, Mr Bacon claimed being a civil servant here was a "damn good skive ".Belfast Telegraph (2004)
Bosses are bracing themselves for a record number of sickies amid predictions that three million workers may skive off.Sun, News of the World (2002)
But going to church was a bit of a farce anyway, because all the prisoners go in there just to skive.A MULTITUDE OF SINS: Golden Brown, The Stranglers and Strange Little Girls (2004)
Dan called me a'terrible skiver' when I caught up with him and it's true - I do skive off all the time.POPCO (2004)
We have lost track of Dan but he probably wouldn't want to skive off something like this anyway.POPCO (2004)
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