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

[WalkDontWalk]

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.

Manchester - skiving was getting out of work, but wagging was missing classes.

It means both in Scotland. Also skiving off is used for actually playing truant.

Dogging/dogging off/dogging it - Glasgow

Ex DP who went to school in Glasgow also called it dogging. He thinks it's hilarious that term now means having sex in car parks.

Skiving, and by extension “playing skivvy”
NE England

Mitching- south Wales

Bunking/bunking off - Sarf East Land-dan / Norf Kent

Mitching, but I believe da yoof now call it sagging off... (south Wales).

London - bunked off

Mitching when I grew up in South Wales

skiving - Midlands

Skiving - Midlands

I remember reading once - and I've no idea where or why I remember it - somebody using the phrase 'bonking the nut' to mean bunking off school.

Skiving off - Ireland

My mum used to say "beaking off" but I think she had just got the wrong expression? Interested to know if anyone else says this!

Skiving - East Midlands

Skiving - West Mids/South Staffs

We called it either "bunking" or "bunking off" most of the time- Guernsey, Channel Islands

Wagging it. Birmingham.

Northampton - wagging it

Skiving, North Yorkshire

South west Wales- in my day -59 yrs old we called it mitching. Now kids call it bunking off (where I teach in the valleys)

Skiving where I grew up (West Midlands).

Mitching in Ireland too, as well as "on the go"

Bunking or skiving - essex

Skiving - SE Wales, 90s. And skivalitis if someone was supposed to be off sick but was actually skiving!