Skive vs Mitch - What's the difference?
skive | mitch | Synonyms |
The iron lap used by diamond polishers in finishing the facets of the gem.
* 2009 , Nicoline van der Sijs, Cookies, Coleslaw, and Stoops: The Influence of Dutch on the North American Languages ,
To pare or shave off the rough or thick parts of (hides or leather).
(British) To avoid one's lessons or, sometimes, work. Chiefly at school or university.
* 2006 , The Economist,
a disc (UK) or disk (US)
a washer (small disc with a hole in the middle )
a slice (e.g. slice of bread )
(dialectal) To pilfer; filch; steal.
(dialectal) To shrink or retire from view; lurk out of sight; skulk.
(Ireland, Wales) To be absent from school without a valid excuse; to play truant.
(dialectal) To grumble secretly.
(dialectal) To pretend poverty.
Skive is a synonym of mitch.
As verbs the difference between skive and mitch
is that skive is to pare or shave off the rough or thick parts of (hides or leather) while mitch is (dialectal) to pilfer; filch; steal.As a noun skive
is the iron lap used by diamond polishers in finishing the facets of the gem.skive
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Noun
(en noun)page 93
- Thus, American diamond cutters would talk of a skive (after Dutch schijf ), where their British colleagues would say disk or wheel.
Verb
(skiv)Young offenders: Arrested development
- Truancies, rather bewilderingly, have risen among children on the programme; the government hopes this is because children skive more as they get older.
Derived terms
* skiverNoun
Derived terms
* * (l) ----mitch
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Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l), (l), (l) * (l) (obsolete)Verb
(es)- John said he was going to mitch the last lesson today.
