skive
Something very easy, where one can slack off without penaltySomething very easy, where one can slack off without penalty.
» She skived off school.
Она прогуляла школу.
Она прогуливала школу.
Вона прогуляла школу.
Значення
значень: 4(Співдружність, Ірландія, Британія, розмовне)Something very easy, where one can slack off without penalty.
Mr Smith's history classes are a total skive.
(Співдружність, Ірландія, Британія, розмовне)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.
Приклади
речень: 29She skived off school.
Вона прогуляла школу.
ruОна прогуляла школу.
Did Tom use to skive school?
ruТом прогуливал школу?
dePflegte Tom die Schule zu schwänzen?
Why don't we skive off school today?
deWarum schwänzen wir heute mal nicht die Schule?
Every school kid has skived at some time or other.
deJeder Schüler hat irgendwann mal die Schule geschwänzt.
How about we skive off school and go to the beach?
ruКак насчет того, чтобы прогулять школу и пойти на пляж?
deWas hältst Du davon, wenn wir den Unterricht schwänzen und an den Strand gehen?
Походження
Probably from French esquiver (“slink away”), from Middle French esquiver (“to escape”), fProbably 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.
Probably from Dutch schijf (“slice”), probably influenced by shive. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skībǭ (“a shaving; slice”).
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