skiver
See also: Skiver
English
Etymology 1
skive (“play truant”) + -er. Probably from French esquiver (“slink away”).
Noun
skiver (plural skivers)
- A slacker.
- A truant; one who is absent without permission, especially from school.
Etymology 2
skive (“to shave”) + -er. Probably from Dutch schijf (“slice”)[1], probably influenced by shive.
Noun
skiver (plural skivers)
- One who uses a skive (or skives).
- (dialectal) A skewer.
- An inferior quality of leather, made of split sheepskin, tanned by immersion in sumac, and dyed, formerly used for hat linings, pocketbooks, bookbinding, etc.
- The cutting tool or machine used in splitting leather or skins.
Verb
skiver (third-person singular simple present skivers, present participle skivering, simple past and past participle skivered)
- (Britain, dialectal) To skewer, impale.
- 1863, Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard, chapter 10
- […] 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.
- 1887, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders, chapter 9
- I'll finish heating the oven, and set you free to go and skiver up them ducks.
- 1863, Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard, chapter 10
References
- https://books.google.be/books?id=qIsDdUSYJMIC
Anagrams
- kivers
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
skiver m or f
- indefinite plural of skive
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
skiver f
- indefinite plural of skive