skive

Plural: skives

Verb

Verb Forms: skived, skiving, skives

To pare or cut a thin layer from something.
remove the surface of
- "skive leather"
To avoid one's lessons or work (chiefly at school or university); shirk.
To pare or shave off the rough or thick parts of.

Noun

Something very easy, where one can slack off without penalty.
An act of avoiding lessons or work.
A rotating iron disk coated with oil and diamond dust used to polish the facets of a diamond.
An angled cut or bevel at the edge of something.

Examples

He decided to SKIVE off the complex strategy, opting for simpler, quicker plays in Words With Friends.
Mr Smith's history classes are a total skive.

Origin / 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.

Synonyms

play hooky, play truant, skip, skive off

Scrabble Score: 12

skive: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
skive: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
skive: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

skive: valid Words With Friends Word