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...to make a UK map of slang for bunking off lessons...

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WalkDontWalk · 08/10/2025 15:24

This is a spin-off from another thread....

Skipping lessons or entire days of school was 'bunking off' where I grew up - which was Sarf London.

There's an Arctic Monkeys song in which Alex mentions 'she wagged English and Science', which I checked with a friend from Sheffield, and it means what I thought it meant.

I think you could make a map of the UK by plotting regional slang for skipping lessons.

OP posts:
Seagullsandsausagerolls · 08/10/2025 18:48

Mitch/mitching in my part of County Down

LaMarschallin · 08/10/2025 18:46

Have I missed it or did nobody else go "on the mung" in South Wales?
We had mitching too but OTM was much more common.

Twoshoesnewshoes · 08/10/2025 18:45

Pinkywoo · 08/10/2025 17:25

Skiving in Norfolk.

Bunking off in Norfolk - mid 1990’s

samplesalequeen · 08/10/2025 18:44

SheGotOffThePlane · 08/10/2025 15:30

Dogging it - just outside Glasgow

yes 😂😂

used to dog PE regularly

ainsleysanob · 08/10/2025 18:43

Wagging - South Yorkshire

CosyDenimShark · 08/10/2025 18:43

Mitching in South Devon

Monty27 · 08/10/2025 18:40

Dobbing in north of Ireland

lemonyfox · 08/10/2025 18:37

Wagging school - North West (Bolton)

GoldBalonz · 08/10/2025 18:20

nythbran2 · 08/10/2025 17:47

Mitching. Mid Wales

Also mitching in S Wales.

the5percentclub · 08/10/2025 18:08

Plantatreetoday · 08/10/2025 17:09

Dogging means something very different down here in Kent 🤣🤣🥴

It does now too in Glasgow. I suspect this came from 'dodging' as bridge becomes brig. Where as the other is from 'taking the dog out'.

JoeSikoraTommysStory · 08/10/2025 18:03

Knocking off
wagging
a duck & a dive (skive)
Newcastle/gateshead 😆

Mathsdebator · 08/10/2025 18:02

Dolling off. Sunderland

I did it once - stood in the cemetery in the rain with my pals, it was shitter than being at school 🤣

TFMinx · 08/10/2025 18:01

Teaching - Hull

StoorieHoose · 08/10/2025 18:00

dogging it. central Scotland in the 80s/90s

Goldenbear · 08/10/2025 17:57

'Skive' but also, 'blag it' in certain contexts - West and South London

MadisonAvenue · 08/10/2025 17:53

Wagging - West Midlands

XWKD · 08/10/2025 17:51

Not UK, but in Dublin 50 years ago it was mitching, or "going on the hop".

ThatWriterInTheCorner · 08/10/2025 17:50

Twagging off. Hull 😊

carpedaim · 08/10/2025 17:48

We called it skiving or skiving off (South East)

nythbran2 · 08/10/2025 17:47

Mitching. Mid Wales

carpedaim · 08/10/2025 17:47

PushItToTheMax · 08/10/2025 17:33

NE England - twanking!

😂

ThePoshUns · 08/10/2025 17:45

SE Wales, mooching or bunking off

MrsArcher23 · 08/10/2025 17:43

on the doss/dossing (can also mean doing no work) or on the hop. South west Ireland.

gingercat02 · 08/10/2025 17:42

Mitching - Belfast in the 70/80s

Pasly · 08/10/2025 17:41

deeahgwitch · 08/10/2025 17:28

Mitching/ mitched/,went on the mitch Dublin, Ireland

Dublin here too we'd also bunking off

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