truant
noun
[ ˈtruːənt ]
• a pupil who stays away from school without leave or explanation.
truant
adjective
• (of a pupil) being a truant.
• "truant children"
truant
verb
• another way of saying play truant below.
• "if my daughter had been truanting from school I would have been informed"
Origin:
Middle English (denoting a person begging through choice rather than necessity): from Old French, probably ultimately of Celtic origin; compare with Welsh truan, Scottish Gaelic truaghan ‘wretched’.
play truant
• (of a pupil) stay away from school without leave or explanation.
• "he often played truant and he usually wrote his own absence notes"
Similar:
stay away from school,
not go to school,
be absent,
truant,
skive (off),
bunk off,
mitch (off),
play hooky,
goof off,
ditch,
play the wag,
bag it,
hook Jack,
mooch,
play the hop,
hop the wag,
