breeze vs skive

breeze

noun
  • Any activity that is easy, not testing or difficult. 

  • An excited or ruffled state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel. 

  • A light, gentle wind. 

  • Wind blowing across a cricket match, whatever its strength. 

  • Ashes and residue of coal or charcoal, usually from a furnace. See Wikipedia article on Clinker. 

  • A brief workout for a racehorse. 

  • A gadfly; a horsefly; a strong-bodied dipterous insect of the family Tabanidae. 

verb
  • To take a horse on a light run in order to understand the running characteristics of the horse and to observe it while under motion. 

  • To blow gently. 

  • To move casually, in a carefree manner. 

  • To swim near the surface of the water, causing ripples in the surface. 

  • To buzz. 

skive

noun
  • Something very easy, where one can slack off without penalty. 

  • An act of avoiding lessons or work. 

  • An angled cut or bevel at the edge of something. 

  • A rotating iron disk coated with oil and diamond dust used to polish the facets of a diamond. 

verb
  • To avoid one's lessons or work (chiefly at school or university); shirk. 

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

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