"Skives" Pronounce,Meaning And Examples

"Skives" Natural Recordings by Native Speakers

Skives

"Skives" Meaning

To skive: to evade work or responsibility by leaving early or avoiding tasks, often before the end of the scheduled time.

"Skives" Examples

5 Usage Examples of the Word "Skives"

1. Medical Context

She skipped the doctor's appointment, but not before five days of fever, which she blamed on a cold, which was just an excuse to take more skives. Her mother, Fullerton, had even claimed to be ill sometimes to play hookey.

Source: Delta of Venus by Anaïs Nin

2. Informal British usage

He was given an official warning, and told that further instances of skiving off would be taken very seriously.

Source: a note on the Blackmount blog

3. Archaic or poetic usage

In those days it was quite possible for skiving, as an art, to secure rewards.

Source: Cyclops by Euripides

4. American or African usage

If he really fell ill, Jones has no penalties; otherwise he'll get his pocket money docked because he's a skiver.

_ Source: an article on LefthandedCyclecoop

5. computer Science usage

If you can't keep up, at least go outside for lunch. I recognize the telltale ativities of skiving, like "playing league FIFA"

_ Source: Techworm by computer science students

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Skopelitans

A rare one! Skopelitans refers to people from Skopelos, a Greek island in the Sporades group of islands in the Aegean Sea. In the broader sense, it can also refer to anything related to Skopelos, such as the local culture, language, or customs. As a suffix, -itans is often used in place names to form adjectives, such as in "New Yorkers" or "Londoners". In this case, the suffix is being used to create a noun to describe people from Skopelos.