truant

Meanings

Plural: truants

Noun

• one who is absent from school without permission
• someone who shirks duty
• An idle or lazy person; an idler.
• A student who is absent from school without permission; hence (figurative), a person who shirks or wanders from business or duty.
• Synonym of sturdy beggar (“a person who was fit and able to work, but lived as a beggar or vagrant instead”); hence, a worthless person; a rogue, a scoundrel.

Adjective Satellite

• absent without permission
  • "truant schoolboys"

Adj

• Shirking or wandering from business or duty; straying; hence, idle; loitering.
• Of a student: absent from school without permission.
• Having no real substance; unimportant, vain, worthless.

Verb

• Also used with the impersonal pronoun it (dated): to shirk or wander from business or duty; (specifically) of a student: to be absent from school without permission; to play truant.
• To idle away or waste (time).

Synonyms

absolute zero, asswipe, awol, badling, blatherskite, bugger, bum, carrion, casual, cipher, clochard, cockstain, couch potato, crumb, custron, dandiprat, dawdler, deadbeat, derelict, dero, do-naught, do-nothing, dogfucker, doink, dosser, down-and-out, down-and-outer, drifter, epithite, faineant, fellow, flaneur, floater, footler, fritlag, gadling, geek, get-nothing, goldbricker, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goof-off, hobo, hooky player, hoon, idler, idleton, Jack out of doors, knight of the road, laggard, lallygag, landleaper, landloper, landlouper, layabout, lazy ass, lazy louse, lazybones, lidderon, lie-abed, loafer, loiter-sack, lollygagger, losel, loser, lounge lizard, lounger, louse, maggot, morepork, ne'er-do-well, no-good, no-mark, no-show, nomad, nonattender, nonce, nonentity, nowmun, paker, palliard, pelf, pig dog, pike, piker, pile of shit, pissant, poop, punk, puny, quat, ragabash, ramp, ranger, rinky-dink, rogue, rolling stone, roly-poly, rough sleeper, scatterling, scullion, shirker, skelder, skell, slacker, slow belly, slubberdegullion, slug-a-bed, slugabed, slugabug, sluggabed, sluggard, sofa spud, sparrow-fart, streak of piss, stroller, stumblebum, sturdy beggar, swaggie, swagman, tarrier, toerag, tramp, truant, twerp, underperson, unworthy, vagabond, vagrant, waif, wanderer, wankstain, waste of space, yagger

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