Reverse Dictionary: TRUANT

ADJECTIVES
► LAKING idling, taking a holiday; playing truant → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► ON THE HOOK absenting oneself from school; playing hooky → 1906 Amer. sl.

NOUNS – PERSON
► BEAKY LADY ► BEAKY MAN a truancy officer → 20C Irish sl.
► BERRY-MOUCHER a truant from school in blackberry season → 1893 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BLACKBERRY MOUCHER a boy who plays truant to pick blackberries → 1825 Eng. dial.
► BOBBER a truant, one who habitually plays truant → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DEWBERRY SNAIL a truant from school → 1810 Eng. dial.
► FAB a truant → 1916 Sc.
► FABBER a truant → 1916 Sc.
► MEECHER a truant → 1825 Eng. dial.
► MICH a truant, one who stays away from school → 1854 Eng. dial.
► MICHARD a truant, one who stays away from school without leave → 1867 Eng. dial.
► MICHER a truant, one who stays away from school without leave → 1854 Eng. dial.
► MIKER a truant → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MINCHER a truant → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MOOCHER a child who plays truant from school; esp. one who plays truant in order to pick blackberries; a blackberry picker → 1790 Eng. dial.
► MOUCHER a child who plays truant from school; esp. one who plays truant in order to pick blackberries; a blackberry picker → 1870 Eng. dial.
► SCRIMATREE a boy who climbs trees; a truant, a ne’er-do-well → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TROANT a truant → 1777 Eng. dial.
► WAG a truant → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► WAGGER a truant → 1895 UK sl.

VERBS
► BAG to fail to attend school or a class → 1892 Amer. juvenile sl.
► BAG IT to play truant → 1889 Amer. dial.
► BAG SCHOOL to play truant → 1892 US sl.
► BAIL to leave, to depart, to go; to play truant; hence, to run out on, to renege on someone → 1977 US sl.
► BOB to  play truant → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BUM to play hooky → 1966 Amer. dial.
► BUNK to play hooky; to skip school → 1924 Amer. dial.
► BUNK OFF to play truant → 1877 Brit. sl.
► DITCH to leave or stay out of school without permission; to be truant → c1939 Amer. dial.
► FAB to play truant → 1916 Sc.
► FADE to miss a class; to waste time rather than work → 1960s US students’ sl.
► FAINAIGUE ► FENEAGUE ► FERNIG to fail of a promise, to play truant, to shirk work → 1854 Eng. dial.
► FAN to play truant; to miss a class → 1989 US students’ sl.
► FLINK to play hooky, to cut class → 1969 Amer. dial.
► GIP ► GYP ► JIP to stay away from school without an excuse, to play hookey → 1967 Amer. dial.
► GYPSY to play truant from school → 1970s sl.
► HOOK JACK to play hookey → 1860 Amer. dial.
► HOOK OFF to play truant from → 1890 Amer. sl.
► HOOK SCHOOL to play truant → 1946 Amer. sl.
► KIP to play truant → E19 sl.
► LAY OFF to stay away from work or school without an adequate excuse; to play hooky → 1966 Amer. dial.
► LAY OUT to stay away from work, school, or other commitments, usually without permission; to loaf; to malinger → 1896 Amer. dial.
► MEECH to play truant; to absent oneself without leave → 1794 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► MINCH to play truant → 1794 Eng. dial.
► MITCH to play truant; to absent oneself without leave → 1790 Eng. dial.
► MOKE to play truant → 19C Eng. dial.
► MOOCH to play truant, esp. to play truant in order to gather blackberries → 1790 Eng. dial.
► PLAY HOOKEY ► PLAY HOOKY to play truant → 1848 sl., orig. US
► PLAY ROOKIE to be truant → 1998 Amer. dial.
► PLAY THE HOOK to play hooky → 1988 Amer. sl.
► PLAY THE WAG ► PLAY WAG to play truant → 1851 Eng. dial.
► SAG ► SAG OFF to play truant from school or work → 1959 UK sl.
► SCHEME to play truant → 1930s Irish sl.
► SHUCK AND JIVE to play truant → 1970 Amer. dial.
► SKANK to play truant → 1980 Black British sl.
► SKANK OFF to play truant → 1997 UK sl.
► SKIP to stay away from school without permission → 1900 US sl.
► SLINGE to play truant from school → 1910 Ireland (Bk.)
► SLUNK SCHOOL to play hooky → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► TIB to slip out; to escape unobserved from school or house; to break bounds → 1840 school sl.
► WAG ► WAG IT ► WAG OFF to play truant → 1841 sl.