Truant vs Micher - What's the difference?
truant | micher |
Absent without permission, especially from school.
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Wandering from business or duty; straying; loitering; idle, and shirking duty.
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*1603+ , (William Shakespeare), (Hamlet) , Act 1, Scene 2
*:A truant disposition, good my lord.
*1772 , , p.149
*:While truant Jove, in infant pride, / Play'd barefoot on Olympus' side.
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*:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.
One who is absent without permission, especially from school.
To play truant.
To idle away; to waste.
* Ford
To idle away time.
* Lowell
One who goes sneaking about for dishonest or improper purposes; one who skulks, or keeps out of sight; a pander or go-between.
A thief; especially a secret or petty thief.
One who pretends poverty.
A truant; one who improperly absents himself.
In intransitive terms the difference between truant and micher
is that truant is to play truant while micher is to sneak.As an adjective truant
is absent without permission, especially from school.truant
English
Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* truant officerNoun
(truants)Derived terms
* play truantVerb
(en verb)- the number of schoolchildren known to have truanted
- I dare not be the author / Of truanting the time.
- (Shakespeare)
- By this means they lost their time and truanted on the fundamental grounds of saving knowledge.