Definition : skive

This is what you’ll look like if you get caught skiving.  So don’t get caught.  First rule of Skive Club.

OK, what is the definition :

skive      /skaɪv/ Pronunciation Key – Show Spelled Pronunciation[skahyv] Pronunciation Key – Show IPA Pronunciation

–verb (used with object), skived, skiv·ing.

1.	to split or cut, as leather, into layers or slices.

2.	to shave, as hides.

3.	to finish the turning of (a metal object) by feeding a tool against it tangentially.

This of course is completely wrong.  To ’skive’ means to bunk off, typically when expected to do work.  It means lazy in literal terms.

This blog will explore the finer points of ’skiving’ - many people do it here, but make it an art form they don’t talk about for fear of the taboo of being a skiver.  Although humans are lazy, they take great offence in being called so, even if it’s the truth.