play truant
English
Verb
play truant (third-person singular simple present plays truant, present participle playing truant, simple past and past participle played truant)
- (intransitive) To be absent from school without permission.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:play truant
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 58, column 1:
- [S]ince I pluckt Geeſe, plaide Trevvant, and vvhipt Top, I knevv not vvhat 'tvvas to be beaten, till lately.
Translations
be absent from school without permission
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