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
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”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer.