Thesaurus:truancy

Thesaurus

truancy

English

Noun

Sense: an illegitimate absence from school

Synonyms

• beaking (Northern Ireland)
• bunking (UK, India, Pakistan)
• bobbing (UK)
• cutting class
• dipping (North America)
• ditching (North America)
• dogging (Scotland)
• going on the hop (Ireland)
• going on the lang (Ireland)
• going on the mitch (Ireland)
• jigging (North America, Australia, New Zealand)
• kidding (North America)
• mitching (Ireland)
• pawning (Singapore)
• pipping (North America)
• playing hooky (North America)
• poning (Singapore)
• sculling (Jamaica)
• self-motivated field trip
• skipping (North America)
• skiving (UK)
• skidgin (UK)
• sluffing (North America)
• truancy
• truantness (dated, obsolete)
• tula (Pakistan)
• wagging (UK, Australia, New Zealand)

See also

• shirk    [⇒ thesaurus]

Further reading

• “623. avoidance” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “187. absence” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “truancy” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
• some synonyms at Google Ngram Viewer