truant
An idle or lazy personAn idle or lazy person; an idler.
» Fritz admits he often plays truant.
Fritz gibt zu, dass er oft die Schule schwänzt. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Фріц визнає, що він часто прогулює школу. — ascolto
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3 sensesAn idle or lazy person; an idler.
(specifically)A student who is absent from school without permission; hence (figurative), a person who shirks or wanders from business or duty.
Schwänzer, Schwänzerin, Schulschwänzer
прогу́льщикprogúlʹščik, прогу́льщицаprogúlʹščica
прогульникprohulʹnyk, сачокsačok
one who is absent from school without permission
(obsolete)Synonym of sturdy beggar (“a person who was fit and able to work, but lived as a beggar or vagrant instead”); hence, a worthless person; a rogue, a scoundrel.
Examples
19 sentencesFritz admits he often plays truant.
Фріц визнає, що він часто прогулює школу. — ascolto
deFritz gibt zu, dass er oft die Schule schwänzt. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Every school pupil has played truant at some time or another.
Кожен школяр хоча б раз у житті прогулював уроки. — deniko
deJeder Schüler hat irgendwann mal die Schule geschwänzt. — al_ex_an_der
I often played truant.
Я часто прогулював школу. — deniko
ruЯ часто прогуливал школу. — marafon
Did Tom use to play truant?
ruТом прогуливал уроки? — Wezel
dePflegte Tom die Schule zu schwänzen? — Espi
Quite a few students played truant from school.
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Origin
The adjective and noun are derived from Middle English truant, truand, truaund (“(adjectivThe adjective and noun are derived from Middle English truant, truand, truaund (“(adjective) idle; tending to vagrancy (uncertain; may be a use of the noun); (noun) beggar; mendicant friar; vagrant, wanderer; worthless person, rogue, scoundrel; one who is absent without leave, truant; one who shirks duties”), from Old French truant, truand (“(adjective) beggarly; roguish; (noun) a beggar, vagabond; a rogue”) (modern French truand), probably of Celtic origin, possibly from Gaulish *trugan, or from Breton truan (“wretched”), from Proto-Celtic *taratrom, from Proto-Indo-European *térh₁-tro-m, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to drill, pierce; to rub; to turn”).
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Forms
plural: truantsSynonyms
129 synonyms- one who is absent from school without permission:hooky player
- someone who shirks duty:no-shownonattender