Your Scottish Slang Word O' The Day: Skiver

Posted by Doug on February 4th, 2005

This entry is part 25 of 28 in the series Your Scottish Slang Word Of The Day

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skiver
(sky·ver) Dialect, chiefly Scot. ~n.
1. one who avoids tasks or work in general; a shirker. [see also sloper]
2. a splinter of wood embedded in the skin (also skelf).
~v.
3. skive ("Ah cannae be arsed wi' this - ahm away fur a skive.")

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