skiver
A slackerA slacker.
Meaning
6 senses(Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, informal)A slacker.
(Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, informal)A truant; one who is absent without permission, especially from school.
(Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, informal)One who uses a skive (or skives).
(Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, dialectal, informal)A skewer.
(Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, informal)An inferior quality of leather, made of split sheepskin, tanned by immersion in sumac, and dyed, formerly used for hat linings, pocketbooks, bookbinding, etc.
(Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, informal)The cutting tool or machine used in splitting leather or skins.
Origin
From skive (“play truant”) + -er. Probably from French esquiver (“slink away”). From skivFrom skive (“play truant”) + -er. Probably from French esquiver (“slink away”).
From skive (“to shave”) + -er. Probably from Dutch schijf (“slice”), probably influenced by shive.
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