skiver vs truant

skiver

noun
  • A truant; one who is absent without permission, especially from school. 

  • The cutting tool or machine used in splitting leather or skins. 

  • One who uses a skive (or skives). 

  • An inferior quality of leather, made of split sheepskin, tanned by immersion in sumac, and dyed, formerly used for hat linings, pocketbooks, bookbinding, etc. 

  • A slacker. 

  • A skewer. 

verb
  • To skewer, impale. 

truant

noun
  • One who is absent without permission, especially from school. 

verb
  • To play truant. 

  • To idle away; to waste. 

  • To idle away time. 

adj
  • Wandering from business or duty; straying; loitering; idle, and shirking duty. 

  • Absent without permission, especially from school. 

How often have the words skiver and truant occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )