...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.

Bunking off or skiving (London area)

However their meaning feels different to me. "Bunking off" feels far more rebellious and naughty - so playing truant for at least a day - whereas "skiving" feels more lighthearted and could be just avoiding some responsibilities or, say, feigning a headache to get out of PE.

Skiving off - mid Wales

Interesting! To me "leg it" means run fast. (London area)

You could always pay your dues with a detention! 🤣 it's never too late!

Skiving in Norfolk.

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

I’m an American who has never lived more than twenty minutes from my birthplace in Southern New England. It’s bunking school here.

We had "plunking" in our corner of sw Scotland. I never did it because my uncle was the Plunkyman who came round to your house to see why folk weren't in school

NE England - twanking!

Skiiving in west Suffolk

Wag/wagging - West Mids, Black Country.

Dublin here too we'd also bunking off

Mitching - Belfast in the 70/80s

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

SE Wales, mooching or bunking off

😂

Mitching. Mid Wales

We called it skiving or skiving off (South East)

Twagging off. Hull 😊

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

Wagging - West Midlands

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

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

Teaching - Hull

Dolling off. Sunderland

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