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A skiver, in informal British English, is a person who : someone who keeps finding ways not to be at school or work, or not to do the job. The -er tells you it is the person, not the action — the action is to . Friends may say it with a laugh (“You old skiver”). A teacher or a boss saying it is usually fed up. You will almost never hear this in American English. Though actually, English has another skiver in workshops: a tool, or a person, that shaves leather thin. That comes from a different . In a ’s dictionary, this entry is the school-and-work one.
常翹課、曠班的人（英式口語）
組成From skive (“play truant”) + -er (the person who does it). Skive itself probably comes from French esquiver, “to slink away.” (A separate word skiver, “leather-shaver,” is from another skive, “to shave,” and is not this sense.)
同家族的字
- skiveskiver is the person who skives
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Skivername
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A surname.
skivernoun詞源 1/ˈskaɪvə/
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informalA slacker.
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informalA truant; one who is absent without permission, especially from school.
skivernoun詞源 2/ˈskaɪvə/
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informalOne who uses a skive (or skives).
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dialectalinformalA skewer.
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informalAn inferior quality of leather, made of split sheepskin, tanned by immersion in sumac, and dyed, formerly used for hat linings, pocketbooks, bookbinding, etc.
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informalThe cutting tool or machine used in splitting leather or skins.
skiververb詞源 2/ˈskaɪvə/
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dialectalinformalTo skewer, impale.
- […] it's I that wishes I could be sure 'twas malice, I'd skiver you, heels and elbows, on my sword, and roast you alive on that fire.
- I'll finish heating the oven, and set you free to go and skiver up them ducks.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。