different between snive vs skive

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) enPR: sn?v, IPA^(key): /sna?v/
• (UK) enPR: sn?v, IPA^(key): /sn??v/

Verb

snive (third-person singular simple present snives, present participle sniving, simple past and past participle snived)

1. Alternative spelling of sny (abound, swarm, teem, be infested).

Anagrams

• Nevis, Viens, Vines, veins, vines, visne

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ska?v/
• Rhymes: -a?v

Etymology 1

Probably from French esquiver (“slink away”), from Middle French esquiver (“to escape”), from Spanish esquivar (“to avoid, reject, elude”), from esquivo (“contemptuous, loathsome”), itself from Old French eschiver, of East Germanic origin, from Gothic *???????????????????????? (*skiuhs, “afraid, barefaced”), from Proto-Germanic *skeuhaz (“afraid, frightened”). Cognate with English shy, eschew.

Verb

skive (third-person singular simple present skives, present participle skiving, simple past and past participle skived)

1. (Britain, informal) To avoid one's lessons or work (chiefly at school or university); shirk.
   • 2006, The Economist, Young offenders: Arrested development

     Truancies, rather bewilderingly, have risen among children on the programme; the government hopes this is because children skive more as they get older.

Synonyms

• skive off
• skip
• play hooky (US)
• see Thesaurus:play truant

Translations

Noun

skive (plural skives)

1. (Britain, informal) Something very easy, where one can slack off without penalty.

   Mr Smith's history classes are a total skive.

2. (Britain, informal) An act of avoiding lessons or work.

Etymology 2

Probably from Dutch schijf (“slice”), probably influenced by shive. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sk?b? (“a shaving; slice”).

Cognate to English shive, German Scheibe (“slice”), Old Norse skífa (“to cut into slices, slice”).

Noun

skive (plural skives)

1. A rotating iron disk coated with oil and diamond dust used to polish the facets of a diamond.
2. An angled cut or bevel at the edge of something.

Verb

skive (third-person singular simple present skives, present participle skiving, simple past and past participle skived)

1. To pare or shave off the rough or thick parts of.

Derived terms

• skiver

References

Anagrams

• Kievs, kievs, kives, vikes

Danish

Noun

skive c (singular definite skiven, plural indefinite skiver)

1. slice, shive

Inflection

References

• “skive” in Den Danske Ordbog

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse skífa

Noun

skive f or m (definite singular skiva or skiven, indefinite plural skiver, definite plural skivene)

1. a disc (UK) or disk (US)
2. a washer (small disc with a hole in the middle)
3. a slice (e.g. slice of bread)

Derived terms

• brødskive
• skivebrems
• svingskive

References

• “skive” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• Skiva, skiva, skivu (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Norse skífa.

Noun

skive f (definite singular skiva, indefinite plural skiver, definite plural skivene)

1. a disc (UK) or disk (US)
2. a washer (as above)
3. a slice (e.g. slice of bread)

Derived terms

• brødskive
• skivebrems
• svingskive

References

• Ivar Aasen (1850) , “Skiva”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog, Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000
• “skive” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• kveis, kvise, skeiv, sveik, svike