...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.

I grew up on the south coast of England - bunking / bunking off

Mitching, bunking off or on the beak, Northern Ireland.

Skiving was multi functional for us (Edinburgh) so you could be skiving (not doing the work) or you could skive off (not turn up).

Did you also say "beaking off" or was that just my mum?

Twagging.S Yorkshire

Lots of people from the northwest have said skiving but I’m also from the northwest and we called it wagging. It wouldn’t be very easy to create and accurate map.

Definitely still mitching in at least one Swansea school!

Wagging it - North West

Twagging - North Yorkshire.

(Skiving is also acceptable!)

@BlueberryLatte, Edited to say, yes, beaking off was also used.

It’s mitching in Devon too.

Wagging- Black Country Midlands. To follow up with the wagger Women or Wagger man.

Mitching - The Pale, more specifically South Dublin.

Jumping the fence-but that might be school
specific.otherwise, bunking, skiving

In south-east Wales, we called it mwtchyn. Nice to see lots of variations of this 😊

In my little corner of North Somerset it was "skiving".

Knocking off. W Yorkshire.

It's called wagging school in Australia 🙂

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

We called it ‘dolling off’ 60’s /70’s Sunderland.

Yep in Kent it’s bunking off

It has a dual meaning in Glasgow!! We use dogging to mean the same as you i suspect also.

North West England- bunking off

Mitching in Pontypridd, but that was many years ago. I only did it once and still feel guilty.

I've told this before but when there was a one day bus strike I told my form in Yorkshire they would have to leg it that day. They were incredulous, eventually we realised that in Yorkshire 'leg it' meant truant, on the better side of the Pennines it means walk!
In the NW I think it was wag but it's so long ago I'm not sure.