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To skive: avoid work or a duty by staying away or leaving early I wonder how it came to be called skiving?

EDIT: apparently it's origin is french word esquiver which means to slink away

Interesting. I wondered if it was related to the Norwegian/Danish "skive" [1], which means to cut or a cut of something.

[1] which could even be inflected like "skiving", though realistically it might not ever have

edit: of course, it might be that "skive" and "esquiver" are related...