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Worker who doesn't turn up
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skiver
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Word definitions for skiver in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Skiver \Skiv"er\, n. [Cf. Skewer , Shiver a fragment.] An inferior quality of leather, made of split sheepskin, tanned by immersion in sumac, and dyed. It is used for hat linings, pocketbooks, bookbinding, etc. The cutting tool or machine used in splitting ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 One who uses a skive (or skives). 2 A slacker. 3 (context dialect English) A skewer. 4 An inferior quality of leather, made of split sheepskin, tanned by immersion in sumac, and dyed, formerly used for hat linings, pocketbooks, bookbinding, etc. 5 ...
Usage examples of skiver.
Am I to be skivered like a rabbit before your eyes, and to have my name disgraced for ever in the sight of all my tribe, and me the best man among them?
They weren't much anyway, just sloganeers and skivers and me-too-ists, the people who crowd behind the poor slob who's the spokesman shouting 'yeah, right' and leg it up an alley when the law gets rough.
Of all the lazy skivers, why did one have to be recording this most important piece of history?
I can see her now, setting there working a pair of thumbies with her wooden skivers clacking away.